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    Centering Truths, Not So Evident
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Aug 14, 2020
    • 13 min

    Centering Truths, Not So Evident

    Santa Fe's Soldier’s Monument is layered upon truths, not so evident but ones that hold a promise for how it can evolve.
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    OÑATE ~ REMOVE & REIMAGINE
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Jun 15, 2020
    • 4 min

    OÑATE ~ REMOVE & REIMAGINE

    I just signed the petition to remove the statue of - el Conquistador Oñate. I support this effort because I don't believe in monuments,...
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    REIMAGINING THE ESPAÑOLA FIESTA
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Apr 14, 2018
    • 20 min

    REIMAGINING THE ESPAÑOLA FIESTA

    OVERVIEW Every community has a unique history, including the dominant narratives that reinforce hierarchies of race, class and gender....
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    Hijos de su Madre:
Revolutionizing Male Consciousness 
out of Vision and Vulnerability
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Mar 29, 2018
    • 15 min

    Hijos 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...
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    Slavery, By Any Other Name
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Mar 19, 2018
    • 7 min

    Slavery, By Any Other Name

    In Ocate, New Mexico, sometime between 1910 and the late 1920s, a young girl named Dora Ortiz often visited with an old woman known as...
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    A:shiwi and Estebanico
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Mar 1, 2018
    • 9 min

    A:shiwi and Estebanico

    Excerpts from “Coyote Convergence,” in Converging Streams: Art of the Hispanic and Native American Southwest © Estevan Rael-Gálvez...
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    Girls Writing the World: A Library Reimagined
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Feb 22, 2018
    • 5 min

    Girls Writing the World: A Library Reimagined

    I learned from an early age that wisdom sits in places, particularly those places where the stories and people have imbued it with...
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    Coco Cultura Cura: History-Healing Family and Community
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Feb 18, 2018
    • 5 min

    Coco Cultura Cura: History-Healing Family and Community

    Recently, I had the opportunity to watch Pixar’s new animated film Coco. Seeing the reflection of a deep, profound and beautiful heritage...
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    Raising Consciousness and Imagining Reconciliation: Santa Fe Fiestas
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Feb 18, 2018
    • 5 min

    Raising 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...
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    Reimagining Community-Centered Sites for History and Healing
    E. Rael-Galvez
    • Feb 2, 2018
    • 17 min

    Reimagining 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...
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