MariFrom the scene libraryA resource is only useful if you can find the next step. We’re putting the people and places to ask in one spot.More moments with Mari
Mari
“Who lives with this decision after we leave?”
Mari left a note
I work at the bookshop, so a change in room hours is also a change to my day. Other people have different things at stake.
What do you miss about home?
Being there without planning a trip. Voice notes help. So do the people who ask about Vieques and wait for my answer, instead of treating one story as the whole island.
A take I’m rethinking
First thoughtIf the room is still open, the change is small.
What I’m asking nowOpen when? Who can get there at that time, and who cannot?
That question matters in the case. Hear the other perspectives, look at the material and decide what you can explain.
What would you need to hear or see before agreeing with Mari? Keep one thing you know separate from one thing you are assuming.
About me
Mari is Puerto Rican, from Vieques. She moved to Brooklyn to live with her aunt while starting college and works at the bookshop downstairs. She makes zines, is dyslexic and switches between print and audio. Voice notes keep her close to home. She and Mateo met while carrying chairs into the Common Room.
Full name
Marisol “Mari” Rivera Torres
These days
First-year college student, bookshop shifts
In the Common Room
Makes room for another story
Closest in the chat
One person’s experience is never the whole group’s story. Open the others, too.
