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Ellena Basada is a writer from Gresham, Oregon. A 2024 Periplus Fellow, she writes about books and visual culture. Sometimes she writes fiction. Ellena is on social media @eebeebeebeebeeb.
Avant-garde entertainment’s new topic of interest: urban transformation in the American Southwest.