{"id":6310,"date":"2026-09-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T19:39:29","slug":"what-it-is-to-watch-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-as-a-daughter-of-an-immigrant-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/what-it-is-to-watch-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-as-a-daughter-of-an-immigrant-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Is to Watch Everything Everywhere All at Once as a Daughter of an Immigrant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By Anna Trevathan, Alumni Managing Editor<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

A multicultural, multiverse exists, and I do not wonder if there are gigantic green gargoyles on Congress or if tyrannical tarantulas terrorize the Senate floor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I instead wonder if there\u2019s one where my mother got to stay in Mexico, and if she got to raise my brother, I wonder if he turned to breastfeeding instead of beer guzzling? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this universe, I imagine a version of her with her nursing degree, a nationally recognized nurse who trains with dazzling doctors and is paid the money she deserves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope she is somewhere wearing one of those long white dresses, eating tortas and tortillas and tacos, I hope she drinks cafecitos and chews on chancla and chisme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does she look like when the world treats her with kindness? Does she stay her beautiful hundred-pound, double-zero, four-foot-eleven self?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hope her hair is still long, that it didn\u2019t fall out from the dollar tree shampoo\/ stress combination, I hope she braids her beautiful black hair in violet vanities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does she have nightmares about cleaning the toilets we clean together here? Would she choose a life where we struggle to put food on the table?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if there is a version of her that came here legally, one that thinks a coyote is just an animal and wouldn\u2019t know where the human-sized hole in a desert fence is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this universe, I hope she had a good Catholic daughter with her black hair and skin that matches hers,  I hope that she got the name my father couldn\u2019t pronounce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pray that in another universe my mother is loving her daughter the way she could never love me in this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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