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The. Broken. Gay. Chicanx. Grind., Damon R. Carbajal

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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Intersextional Pride, Damon R. Carbajal

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

This poem is one of a trio of poems published in this volume titled, “at the interSEXtion of being GAY and CHICANX: Un Trío de Poemas,” that dive into what it means growing up as a gay, Chicanx light-skinned in the current times post the moviemento and through the strides of the queer liberation movement. The poems explore many facets of living at this intersection including, but not limited to, toxic masculinities, queerphobia, mental health, sexual assault, pride, etc. The poems also explore the notion of what it means to be mestiza as Mexicano and White and how this further …

Front Matter

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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Cultural Heritage Of Northern New Mexico, Maria Varela

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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My Bearish Life - A Visual Representation Of A Queer Subculture, Adam D. Bencomo

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

This is a photographic dialogue of queer body radical acceptance as told by Adam David Bencomo, a native of Albuquerque, New Mexico and University of New Mexico Alumnus. Photographic images include: Body Positivity, Mer-Bear, Yes, I CAN Do a Handstand - Adam at The Woods Campground, and Hiking with Ben.

Cosmic Desert Art, Mike Graham De La Rosa

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

The Cosmic Desert are the designs inspired by chile hallucinations, desert creatures, and the long weird neon nights in the Borderworld. Made with love on the banks of the Rio Grande.

My family is originally from Northern Mexico but I grew up in Northern New Mexico down river of both where Al Hurricane and Nuclear Annihilation were originally created. Amongst chollas, rattle snakes, and river willow, the imagining of New Mexico permeates the landscapes. The Cosmic Desert is inhabited lowriders, taco trucks, neon adobe bars, cholas, native peoples, immigrants, punk rockers and cowboys. Just beyond the darkness, our imagination takes …

Things Will Never Be The Same: How Corona Further Exposed Our System "Documenting The Pandemic Through Highlighting Community Mutual Aid Efforts", Pico Villa

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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Corazon De Covid, Luis O. Esparza

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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Paintings By Anita O. Rodríguez, Anita O. Rodriguez Ms

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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Those Streets That I Dare To Call My Barrio, Maria Jose Ramos Villagra

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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Missing, Murdered, Indigenous, Matthew Bollinger

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

The missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic is an issue currently affecting Indigenous people in North America. To articulate my concept visually, old photographs that showcase American culture (predominantly white) are drawn on, cut-up, and recomposed into portraits of missing Navajo women.

Gato Negro, Tecolote Floreado, Rosalee Montoya

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

–Era una época insólita, una época de inseguridad y una época de inquietud. Así comenzó un cuento que me contó mi abuela, Refugio, una mañana cuando era pequeña. Me dijo que, en el año 1929, comenzaron a pasar algunos incidentes extraños en Nuevo Méjico alrededor de los pueblitos de Pastura, la Pintada y hasta en partes tan lejos como en Los Montoya. Para los habitantes del llano del medio, estos eventos no tenían buena explicación según decían los que vivían allí. Siempre había permaneció la tranquilidad, paz y amistad en todo el llano. Al principio, nadie puso mucha atención cuando …

Stories From Home: Yvonne Montoya And Shannon Parrales In Conversation, Yvonne Montoya

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

In this conversation, New Mexican contemporary dance artists Yvonne Montoya and Shannon Parrales discuss their dance journeys and their work on Montoya’s current projects: Stories from Home and Stories from Home: COVID-19 Addendum.

Cover Art, Mike Graham De La Rosa

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

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Works By Rudy J. Miera, Rudy J. Miera

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

Neo-Cubist painting

White On The Outside | Brown On The Inside, Damon R. Carbajal

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

This poem is one of a trio of poems published in this volume titled, “at the interSEXtion of being GAY and CHICANX: Un Trío de Poemas,” that dive into what it means growing up as a gay, Chicanx light-skinned in the current times post the moviemento and through the strides of the queer liberation movement. The poems explore many facets of living at this intersection including, but not limited to, toxic masculinities, queerphobia, mental health, sexual assault, pride, etc. The poems also explore the notion of what it means to be mestiza as Mexicano and White and how this further …

Goddess Couture, Natalia O. Trevino

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

These poems explore the nature of the divine patriarch and matriarch in the mestiza-American consciousness.

Añiles De Mi Tierra, Francisco Lefebre

Chamisa: A Journal of Literary, Performance, and Visual Arts of the Greater Southwest

This image painted in 1990 is an homage to my hometown, the village known as Wagon Mound. Wagon Mound is located in northern New Mexico in the County of Mora off of Interstate I25.