In the Spring of 1989, a 28 year-old woman by the name of Trisha Meili was brutally beaten and raped while jogging in Central Park, New York City. She was found naked and in critical…
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Meditations During the Time of COVID: The Other Butterfly
By John S. Blake “May I never take this view for granted” is my mantra, aloud, as soon as my eyes inhale the Sandias—sunshine sliding over them each morning as a mother lovingly easing a…
The Seeds We Plant: Semillas Por Vida
By Alicia Lueras Maldonado Seeds teach us patience. They teach us to pay attention. To listen. Each seed has a story to tell. A lineage and connection. Just as we do. No seed is the…
To Miss, With Love
By Mercedes V. Avila I sit in my second Google classroom session and frantically vacillate between the “camera off” and “camera on” display, trying to elicit a response. Unable to manifest my quarantine state for…
The Quarantined Mind; Reflections, Part I
By John S. Blake Nested inside our egg-toned skulls lives a relentless machine. Powered by lightning, oxygen and blood, it stores all the data from our senses, pulls levers and pushes buttons to our emotions,…
Staying Rooted During a Pinche Pandemic
There are things in life that are a constant. That connect us to our humanity. To the universe, our ancestors and to our medicine.
Poetry as Artivism – A Call to Action for our Undocumented and Immigrant Relatives with NM Dream Team
By Jessica Helen Lopez, Xicana Poeta y Maestra and Eduardo Esquivel, NMDT Program Manager Here is a message from our Undocumented relative and Immigrant activist, Eduardo Esquivel of the NM Dream Team. The New Mexico Dream…
Who Owns Haiti
BY BRIANNA J WHITAKER m·pe·ri·al·ism /imˈpirēəˌlizəm/ noun noun: imperialism a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. 1. “the struggle against imperialism” historical rule by an emperor. How does…