In arguably the most powerful speech ever given about the power of stories, Toni Morrison, while accepting her Nobel Prize for Literature, said: “Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.” In the most anti-immigrant climate in modern American history, we must be radical–-consistently, courageously…

Coming out as liberation — The fact that I am both gay and undocumented solicits too many questions to count. The most stupefying of all goes something like, “Which was harder: Coming out as gay or coming out as undocumented?” I found out I didn’t have the right papers to live in the U.S. at…

We explore where our country is, and where our country is going — At age 12, I was sent to America for a better life. At age 16, after attempting to get a driver’s license, I discovered that I’m not supposed to be in U.S., that I was what the news media called “illegal,” that I didn’t have the right papers. At age…

I am writing to you, immigrant to immigrant. — Our country’s immigration system, as you well know, is more complicated than the news media makes it out to be. …

Like just about everyone, I was excited to hear what Chris Rock would say at the Academy Awards. As the big day approached, I remembered a few lines from a brilliant essay by Rock himself, specifically about Mexicans in Los Angeles, where I now live. …

It’s me, Jose Antonio Vargas. I am a journalist and filmmaker whose work centers on the emerging American identity. Want to talk about race? How about gender and sexuality? Immigration? I know — that stuff can be a little uncomfortable, even for me. But as an undocumented gay man who…

And answers to 4 complaints I keep getting Hello, hola, kamusta (that’s Tagalog for you), my name is Jose Antonio Vargas, and I’m the host and director of White People, a documentary, on, well, white people. Specifically, young white people. (Full disclosure: I am not a White People. I am a Gay, Undocumented, Filipino People.) If you haven’t…