Lauryne Wright

GOP Gaslit Ads Raise Sociopathic Red Flag in New Mexico

Republican political ads here in southern New Mexico are chock full of gaslighting about what’s going on with the Republican Party and in the nation in general. Especially with one candidate in particular, Gregory G. Cunningham running for the US House of Representatives against our incumbent Democratic Congressman Gabe Vasquez. Gaslighting, for those who might […]

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Why I Struggle With Selling. Which is Also Why Women Should Read My Novels.

Last week I read a Writer’s Digest online article that hit me in the solar plexus, given it was already a difficult time due to the 9/11 anniversary, an event that still holds a great deal of residual trauma for me with respect to the Pentagon in particular. This year, of course, it was compounded

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Would We Treat Actual Aliens the Abysmal Way We Regard Immigrants Deemed Illegal?

On this Labor Day I ponder the way we in the US treat immigrant laborers, especially the hubris of labeling them “aliens,” much less “illegal.” Our nation and its highly flawed mechanisms for dealing with immigration have a long way to go. Because we’re going backward as opposed to forward when it comes to the

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Roswell, New Mexico TV Show Pulls No Political Punches

Watching initial episodes of Roswell, New Mexico from 2019 on Netflix this week was at startling as rereading my first two Other Worldly novels published in 2020, Alienable Rights and Feeling Alienated, and being utterly confused. Wait, what? Aren’t these atrocities against humanity committed by ICE and other unidentifiable thugs exactly what’s happening right now

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Selfish Humans Can’t Seem to Comprehend: It’s Their Habitat Too

“I didn’t exactly choose the ‘I prefer animals over people’ lifestyle. I just met enough people to realize the animals were winning.” This meme from social media pretty much sums up the past few months of my semi-rural life in southern New Mexico, not to mention it’s an ongoing theme woven throughout my Other Worldly

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