MAPPING QUEER HISTORY IN NEW MEXICO
By Ellen Dornan
“Did New Mexico – or at least Albuquerque and Santa Fe– support a culture where queer people could be authentic and accepted, and nurture queer culture?”
TEACHER WARRIOR
By Ninabah Davis
“In the month of May we celebrate Mother’s Day to honor our mothers, grandmothers and aunts, and for this Mother’s Day I would like to share a story about my late paternal Grandmother who was named Chábáh Davis Watson.”
SHIKATAGANAI — IT CAN’T BE HELPED
By Shelley Takeuchi
“May is now designated as Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month.”
FISH NOT FLESH: SYMBOLISM OF THE NEW MEXICO LENTEN FEAST
By Vanessa Baca
“Ultimately, it is the return to life after the darkness of death that is at the heart of Lent and Easter Sunday, and it is this contrast that is represented in the food eaten by New Mexico Catholics.”
INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY: JAZZ AND DEMOCRACY
By Andy Kingston
“The irony was not lost on many artists that a nation struggling with racial segregation at home should turn to those denied full participation in American democracy as ambassadors of American ideals abroad.”
CARLOS, PRIETO, AND RAMIRO COME TO HOE THE MILPA
By Levi Romero
“Hay más tiempo que vida, my cousin would often say.
And maybe he was right, although sometimes I have a hard time
Grasping what he meant, there is more time than life.”
SOY MAGDELENA… Y HE PECADO
By Diana Velazco
“Represento a toda mujer
Que en el mundo se le ha juzgado;
Por prejuicios o por genero,
Por machismo o egoismo.”
IDA B. WELLS: THE POWER OF THE PEN
By Ina Jane
“Today, the legacy of her work continues as countries all over the world chant the words, ‘Black Lives Matter!’”
ENCOUNTERING NEW MEXICO
By Darryl Wellington
“I was aware that New Mexico was heavily Indigenous and Hispanic. It did not lack people of color. But I soon learned I was not completely mistaken in immediately worrying how race was constructed here, in terms of post-colonial oppression, and whether the absence of blackness might mean the preeminence of whiteness.”
THE LAST MLK DAY
By Hakim Bellamy
“Dr. King gets significant and deserved credit for being one of the greatest orators of the 20th century, however he never gets his just due as a poet.”