A group of people marches beside a border fence holding signs, with the leading person holding a sign that reads "SAVE FRIENDSHIP PARK!" under a partly cloudy sky.
  • The Park

SD UT: Negative narratives about the border are often false. We must embrace lived experience.

For border communities, it is common for opportunistic influencers to reduce our dynamic border region to unfair depictions of violent extremes or banal lived experiences. The colorful vibrancy of everyday human interactions is lost, and those rich stories of our shared humanity go untold.

Read this thoughtful essay by Pedro Rios here.