SPACESHIPS, RAY GUNS, AND LIFE LESSONS
SPACESHIPS, RAY GUNS AND LIFE LESSONS “science fiction allows you to discuss difficult and fraught topics in what is a safe space and at arm’s length.” PHOTO CAPTION: Publicity photo of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner as Mr. Spock and Captain Kirk from the television program Star Trek. Jan. 12, 1968, NBC Television. WikiCommons. SHARE: […]
DOROTHY B. HUGHES: A FEMINIST ICON, AN ICON FOR WRITERS
By Monika Dziamka
“When the search gets tough, and the professional identity crisis again looms nigh, I remind myself of the extraordinary career of Dorothy B. Hughes, a woman, mother, and writer who helped solidify New Mexico’s literary legacy not just in the United States, but around the world as well.”
A SOLDIER’S PASSAGE: A NEW MEXICO-MADE FILM EXPLORES THE ART OF SAYING “GOODBYE” TO DAD
By Paul Ingles
“I told my therapist, ‘Seeing my father take his last breath was probably the most profound thing I’ve ever witnessed. I keep playing it over and over in my head. And you know what? I don’t think I WANT to forget it.’ ‘You never will,’ he said assuredly.”
COMMUNITY VISIONS — CINEMATIC NARRATIVES BY WOMEN
By Ariel Dougherty
“In intervening decades too few opportunities in the U.S. have existed for women to gain support for narrative filmmaking.”