Lupe Mendez

Sep 24, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Lilly Dancyger |Lupe Mendez |Deborah Thompson

What I want, more than I want a child or a childfree life, is to make a decision and feel sure it was the right one. This is a choice. This is the insult. This is carelessness of a system and a society.

May 28, 2024 | theoffingmag.com | Lilly Dancyger |Aurora Shimshak |Nancy Jorgensen |Lupe Mendez

I always thought I would have kids someday. I wanted a baby before I turned 30, I used to say. But as I approached and then sailed past that arbitrary deadline, I became less and less sure. Motherhood always sounded like something that another version of me would be ready for, someday. But then real life caught up with that hypothetical “someday,” and I wasn’t ready. I loved the life my husband I had built together—quiet evenings at home with our two cats, international trips every year or two.

Nov 6, 2023 | thecommononline.org | Lupe Mendez

Farmworker, Issue 26, Issue 26 Poetry, Poetry By LUPE MENDEZTodo mi maíz se llevó, ni pa’comer me dejóEl Barzón. —Luis Pérez MezaEsas tierras del rincón, I look at them como un buey pando, feeling the dry earth, crunch under my boots.                    Es Julio, y si sigue asi, dirán que es sequía.    I pray it is not. For now, I will do what we have always done. I will work like my father él y sus mandados. En las labores.