Yesterday, we ended up having to go @MethodistHosp Willobrook's ER due to Nicci suddenly experiencing sharp and continuous right side pain. The result after ten hours was no clear diagnosis and the hospital calling an officer to the room because Nicci asked a question I'm fully aware of how hard a hospital staff must work under regular situations, and clearly these last few months have been anything but normal for them. We never raised our voices or were confrontational and the staff gave no prior indication they felt we were out of line.

American Dirt, as most of you already know focus on a Mexican woman who looks to cross into the United States. She does so by using coyotes and riding the bestia-a train packed with other hopeful likes her. (1) She does this because the writer couldn't fathom anything but the same old stereotypes about undocumented and their struggles. It has to be the same old version Hollywood has thrown at us for years.

But there are countless of immigrant stories. Like my aunt Olivia's.(2)