Featured essays by VR contributors reflect our moment and momentum in an era of critical transition.

Daily, our eyes cull through overwhelming infomedia landscapes which pass for communication. What I work to achieve with VR essays is an openly communicative platform, written by independent, well-informed voices questioning social narratives. Agency with intent.

Our content is geared towards an increasingly discerning public and emerging, self-starting REpublics ceasing ties with harmful patterns: of thinking, of seeing, of believing.

If poetry is the result of the best words in the best order, impassioned prose must be the most valuable words—in their most active order.

-Patricia Silva
October 2011