Category: Non-Fiction Literary Writer
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Doña Gavi: La Madrina de Curling México/ Ms. Gavi: Godmother of México Curling
I went to visit Doña Gavi, Mexico’s curling super fan.
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Curling Glossary English-Spanish/ Glosario de Curling Inglés-Español
Curling Glossary English-Spanish/ Glosario de Curling Inglés-Español Con Andorra, Bolivia, México y España en la Federación Mundial de Curling, me pareció buen momento para aportar a la terminología de curling y desarrollar un glosario de curling inglés-español ampliado. ////With Andorra, Bolivia, Mexico, and Spain in the World Curling Federation, I figured it was a good…
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The Latinx Epidemic in San Francisco
Below please find the links to a series of articles and commentaries that I have written since June 2020 related to the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on the Latinx population of San Francisco. The Latinx COVID-19 Epidemic breaks a fever, as cases rises among City’s white population (November 19, 2020) Excerpt: … But this surge…
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Policing and police reform
From time to time, I’ll publish a commentary on policing and police reform in the City. Below are links to a few such articles.
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The Rookie Report: Lessons Learned from the 2019 World’s Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
For the benefit of all those up and coming curlers from rookie or still emerging nations with World-class and Olympian-level dreams, in this report I cover how we rookies fared, what we learned, and what you’re up against in the Qualifier Event. This rookie report is written with the benefit of hindsight and informed by…
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Curling Chronicles: Black Coffee at a Seattle Bus Stop
Black Coffee at a Seattle Bus Stop I woke up thinking about Ethiopians in Seattle. In the past weekends of shuttling back and forth between San Francisco International Airport and SeaTac, I noticed elder Ethiopian women wrapped in their white netela. They often occupied a strong spatial presence on the Link train and E line…
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Unsettled/ Inquietos: A collaboration with El Tecolote, the bilingual newspaper of the Mission!
Adriana Camarena is proud to collaborate with Accion Latina to create and distribute “Unsettled/Inquietos,” a series of literary non-fiction essays based on portraits of working class and poor residents of the traditionally Latino Mission District of San Francisco. The essays will be published in English and Spanish in the bilingual El Tecolote newspaper of Acción…
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Adriana Camarena responds to YBCA’s “Take This Hammer Exhibit” as part of Ten Bay Area Writers Respond, June 7th, 2016
An essay by Adriana Camarena about affordable housing, police brutality, homelessness, art and activism. The author was commissioned by the YBCA to write a response to the exhibit “Take This Hammer”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), March 11th to August 16th, 2016 (Guest Curator: Christian L. Frock) and present work at the event:…
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The Naming of Things
The Naming of Things* For Chris Carlsson, and in memory of “Processed World” magazine. I have found the place where making romantic sentences full of pathos and bravado has become factory work. On a plain of paved streets in Sunnyvale, past rows of ticky-tack Spanish-tiled roofs, in a cove of office-warehouses, holding herds of cubicles,…
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108 Homes
Work-in-progress/ Extract (updated Sept. 8, 2014) 108 Homes For Mary Brown— My friend —M— gave me a list of 108 homes with listed owners who had not changed in the last 35 years. I went knocking on those address doors wanting to know who lived there. I started with names on my list that did…