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Experimental Geography invites everyone (ie. you) to mark up a bare-bones street map of Albuquerque with what constitutes your personal geography. Here’s one “X marks the spot” from my life: I saw kids playing jump rope with… Continue

Out here, past the “official” commuter belt, the hazards are a little different than you find in Albuquerque. I live on a few acres in a little valley backed up to the Ballinger ranch with its eleven thousand non-subdivided acres of piñon/juniper/grasslands that are range to a… Continue

When I think of melanin, I don’t think of the 1927 Von Luschan chromatic scale with its 36 points of potential overgeneralizations. Rather, I think of my brother’s shoulder blades. My mother… Continue

I’ve been using a wheelchair for distances since the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s Birthday. I have multiple sclerosis and currently have some left side impairment so on February 12th of this year, I got into my first wheelchair. It was a clunker, “emancipated” (or borrowed… Continue

I’ve been thinking about the love artists have for craft – making art in a recession is a beloved act -- and in the last two days I have had a chance to be witness to a good dose of that fist sized organ that beats inside anyone who dedicates her life to the kick of the creative. Thursday I saw Ramona King’s one woman show (which is still running—through this Sunday). It’s titled “Maternal Dreamer #2: Living the Dream,” though if I had… Continue

I wanted to write briefly about my work for the Governor’s Women’s Health Office. I’m a firm believer in arts, music, and literature as activism that can be put to the service of many different issues and causes---and back in February during… Continue

I just wanted to give a quick shout out to the openers for Michael Datcher. If you come out Saturday night May 9th to the Outpost at 7:30 pm, you'll hear some of my personal favorites. Maisha Baton is a phenomenal poet and was perhaps the most significant professor in my too long academic career--in a women's studies class she peeled back the brainwashing of my childhood. I also had the chance to blurb her book, Flight Time, which thrilled me. Stephanie and Virginia (remember Out ch'Yonda) are a… Continue