E. Rael-GalvezApr 14, 201820 minREIMAGINING THE ESPAÑOLA FIESTAOVERVIEW Every community has a unique history, including the dominant narratives that reinforce hierarchies of race, class and gender. Española is no except...
E. Rael-GalvezMar 29, 201815 minHijos de su Madre: Revolutionizing Male Consciousness out of Vision and Vulnerability Prologue : The following essay was written in 1999. I was 30 years old and had not yet even imagined the professional life before me. At that time, I had re...
E. Rael-GalvezMar 19, 20187 minSlavery, By Any Other NameIn Ocate, New Mexico, sometime between 1910 and the late 1920s, a young girl named Dora Ortiz often visited with an old woman known as Rosario Romero. During...
E. Rael-GalvezMar 1, 20189 minA:shiwi and EstebanicoExcerpts from “Coyote Convergence,” in Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest © Estevan Rael-Gálvez Recently, I had the gre...
E. Rael-GalvezFeb 22, 20185 minGirls Writing the World: A Library ReimaginedI learned from an early age that wisdom sits in places, particularly those places where the stories and people have imbued it with presence and meaning. Sava...
E. Rael-GalvezFeb 18, 20185 minCoco Cultura Cura: History-Healing Family and CommunityRecently, I had the opportunity to watch Pixar’s new animated film Coco. Seeing the reflection of a deep, profound and beautiful heritage was meaningful and ...
E. Rael-GalvezFeb 18, 20185 minRaising Consciousness and Imagining Reconciliation: Santa Fe Fiestas While the annual Santa Fe Fiesta has now passed, the dust it always raises never fully settles. Over the past couple of years I witnessed the growing voices ...
E. Rael-GalvezFeb 2, 201817 minReimagining Community-Centered Sites for History and Healing “When it’s truly alive, memory doesn’t contemplate history, it invites us to make it.” — Eduardo Galeano, Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking –Glass World ...
