Olivia Heffernan

Olivia Heffernan is a writer and documentary filmmaker. Her work focuses on the intersection of labor, race,and incarceration, and has been featured in The Nation, Jacobin, The Marshall Project, The Appeal, Documented, and more.

A blue ballpoint pen drawing of two arms from the point of view of the person they belong to. The left arm is naked except for an ID card on his forearm. The right hand wears a latex glove while holding a tattoo gun that is pressed again the skin of the left arm. The tattoo gun has a metal chain links attached to it.

Marked for Life

Olivia Heffernan, Steve Brooks

November 26

Issue no. 80

Tattoos as assumed markers of gang membership are a recurring feature of the current mass deportation project.

Hands touch each other softly with fingertips in between rays of lights.

Open House

Olivia Heffernan

December 12, 2022

Issue no. 66

Decolonizing the family, one tiny home at a time.