José Orduña

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SELECTED ESSAYS & EXCERPTS:

"Border Acts" —The Believer (June/July 2021 Issue)

"X" — Don't Look Now: Things We Wish We Hadn't Seen (Anthology)

"Scenes From a Pandemic: 7" —The Nation

"Social Distance" —Desert Companion (online & in print)

"A Nation of Laws, A People of Compassion" —Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Issue 55)

"My Very First Green Card," excerpt from The Weight of Shadows—Beacon Broadside

"Joe Arpaio, a Devil in a Cast of Villains"—NACLA–Border Wars Column

"A Legacy of Weaponized Amnesia"—NACLA–Border Wars Column

"That Our Mind Hinders Itself"—After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

“The Drone of Political Theater: 2016’s DNC and RNC.”—Beacon Broadside

“On the Hollow Spectacle of Attaining American Citizenship,” excerpt from The Weight of Shadows—Literary Hub

“What It’s Like to Serve President Obama Dinner as an Unnaturalized Citizen,” excerpt from The Weight of Shadows—Alternet

“White Crosses: Vigil Along the U.S./Mexico Border”—Powells Books Blog

“Tasers, Drones, and Cold Chicken: Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Business of Keeping Me Out of America”—Buzzfeed

TRANSLATIONS:

"Qué se siente que me quieran fuera de Estados Unidos" (Translation of "Tasers, Drones, and Cold Chicken: Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Business of Keeping Me Out of America" —Buzzfeed

SELECTED INTERVIEWS:

Radio Interview —Access Utah

"My Story Doesn't Begin When I Was Born"—conducted by Micah McCrary —Los Angeles Review of Books

"Out From the Shadows: A Normal Interview with José Orduña"—conducted by Eddie P. Gomez —The Normal School

"A Good Deal of Light"—conducted by Gemma de Choisy —Guernica

"Deferred Action is Mostly a PR Tactic"—conducted by Patrick Reilly, Global Voices at the University of Chicago International House—Global Voices University of Chicago Undergraduate Political Reviw