Vida creator has a bruja bless her new workspace before beginning to write

Variety

Tanya Saracho considers herself “superstitious and very connected to spirits," so she asks a bruja, or witch, to bless every new space she enters before she starts working there, as Variety found when it visited her office. Saracho's office also has a doll of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo given to her by a former Starz executive, as well as Selena Quintanilla-Pérez candle on her desk. “She’s our patron saint,” says the Texas-raised Saracho, who saw Selena perform at her high school. “There’s a link, but now she’s become bigger than that.” ALSO: Vida's magic lies in the way it marries specificity—of culture, of place, of sexuality—with universality.