bypassed: the hidden central valley

(pipe wrench magazine, issue 3: aug/sep 2021)

“I am the dark-skinned woman in the fields. i started as a child so my skin grew dusky and rough under the blazing sun, peeling away from me like a lizard’s tail. my knuckles split from the alkaline sand, the salted air stung my lips, and this was how i watered the ground: with my body.”

Read the full graphic essay online here.

All illustrations by Lisa Lee Herrick.