With so many people taking to the streets in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, we are reminded that our movement began 51 years ago with a riot, with trans women of color leading the way. Today these women are still being disproportionately targeted with hate and as a queer community we must speak out against it and again reach back into our rich history of mobilizing for change. It is tiring work, and Pride month is normally the one time of the year where we get to let our true selves shine in the company of our queer community’s embrace. But this year we must take that organizing, outreach, educating, and resources to the streets. The Envision Fund supports queer initiatives that are saving the lives of our most vulnerable populations, through grantmaking that reaches all parts of New Mexico. Whether it is fighting for the rights of the incarcerated immigrant trans women, or the standing up for the bullied kids in the public schools, or fighting against conversion therapy in the legislature, Envision has been there championing the rights of the LGBTQ+ community since 1997. We are reminded every day that we continue to fight for our inalienable rights as humans to exist without fear. And we have waited much too long for the simple human right of being safe in this world, so we must continue to rise up. With Pride. The Envision Fund, an initiative of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, promotes the health, safety, and empowerment of at-risk and underserved LGBTQ+ New Mexicans. To help us continue our grantmaking, please consider making a donation: Online at santafecf.org/envisionfund or by Texting “Envision” to (505) 333-4714
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NEWS OPINION 5 NEWS 7 DAYS, CLAYTOONZ AND THIS MODERN WORLD 6 DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT VANDALIZED WITH WHITE SUPREMACIST MESSAGES 8 India Palace owner Bajit Singh found his restaurant totally ransacked on Monday, covered in hateful graffiti
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THE INTERFACE 9 LOCKDOWN LESSONS A program giving New Mexican students hands-on experience with supercomputer projects flourishes while folks stay at home COVER STORY 10 PRIDE 2020 Five authors scattered along the sexuality and gender spectrums share what’s important to them during this unprecedented Pride season
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ONLINE, JUNE 8: “SANTA FE TO REVIEW USE OF FORCE POLICIES”
KEEP THE POLICE Yes, there is a dire need for transparency and oversight; but cutting the police force is not the answer to our budget deficit. Anyone who has ever worked downtown knows that the police are essential to keeping the peace. The majority of our officers are professional and compassionate. Many of them are forced to take more than the usual risks, due to frequent understaffing issues. Santa Fe is an international destination and downtown can become quite volatile. Tourists have often reported feeling unsafe, especially at night. Our merchants, hoteliers and restaurateurs have already been hit hard by COVID. To further denigrate the downtown scene by leaving it unsupervised would be a great detriment to an industry that creates jobs and raises a substantial amount of money for the city. There are other ways to respond to the budget shortfall. At this very moment in our drought-affected state, our priceless lands and water are being compromised to serve the fracking industry. We are destroying our future and the future of our children. Why not cap oil and gas interests and impose a serious interim carbon tax to invest in green jobs and sustainable energy infrastructure, not to mention reparations to those who have been most directly impacted by environmental degradation? It’s now or never.
NODIAH BRENT SANTA FE
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NO MORE LIBERAL REFORMS It’s way too late for “reform.” The same liberal reforms now being proposed by the Democrats in Congress have been in place all across the country for at least 10 years, during which time police have become more and more militarized. It’s now normalized in this country for police to come out with their high tech weaponry and murder and maim people every time anyone other than white supremacists exercise their rights to assemble and criticize the government. Reforms do not work. They did not work in Minneapolis, they did not work in ABQ, or anywhere else. People of color are not safe from police murder, even in their beds. A police state is not subject to reforms. Police are entirely above the law and they know it. They laugh at reforms. Defund, disarm and abolish the police, here in Santa Fe, and everywhere in the US. That will be a start.
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BAD MONUMENTS ABOUND [Attention, Mayor Alan Webber], I am delighted to learn that the De Vargas statue is gone from the cathedral and about your plan to remove the very phallic obelisk from the Plaza. Please consider removing another monument to colonization and Indigenous oppression: the 10 Commandments monument in front of Fire Station #3 on Cerrillos Road. Such action would demonstrate the city’s commitment to secular, non-religious rule of law. I brought this to your attention two years ago and you said you wanted the city to be “tolerant.” It is clear that you agree
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DE VARGAS STATUE MOVED TO SECRET LOCATION He’s got his own bunker, just like Trump and other not-to-be named villains.
FAUCI SAYS CORONAVIRUS VACCINE IS ABOUT “WHEN,” NOT “IF” Kind of like how WHEN you don’t wear a mask, people don’t have to wonder IF you’re a dick.
CITY GRT DIP NOT AS DEEP AS ESTIMATED It’s still bad, it’s just not as bad.
AMP CONCERTS’ OUTDOOR DRIVE-IN SHOW WITH LOCAL BAND DETROIT LIGHTNING WAS APPARENTLY PRETTY AWESOME Even if it was all Grateful Dead songs…
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O’KEFFEE MUSEUM LAYOFFS Museums and cultural institutions continue to struggle with public health closures, including the Georgia O’Keffee Museum, which has laid off 45 workers.
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TOOL FOR THOUGHT Maybe the Plaza isn’t the best location for the obelisk, but at least for me I found it powerful. Powerful that the original inscription had been altered (corrected) years before by an unknown hand and that the city left the alteration. While the Plaza area has been “prettifyfied” to help the important tourist economy (it really is pretty—not a bad thing), the obelisk is a stark reminder of how attitudes have changed and continue to change and should change. Its central location serves to challenge us to re-evaluate our own prejudices.
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ONLINE, JUNE 18: “DE VARGAS ON ICE”
NEW OPPORTUNITIES Unbelievable to me watching people defend these obelisks and statues here. People, don’t hang on. The advent of placing new monuments in Santa Fe and around the country are incredible opportunities to express unity and greatness in our present culture. Embrace the new!
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DON’T CALL THEM RACIST Leah Cantor jumps right in, labeling historic statues “racist.” As a former reporter, I think it’s time for the Fourth Estate to chill, stop advocating and instead serve your obligations to journalism and to the people of New Mexico. We already get way too much biased—by all definitions—reporting from now-deregulated, mostly monopoly controlled “big media,” without getting it from the last bastions of what should be responsible, objective journalism: small, locally owned papers. As is, the only ones being allowed input, during our current “cultural cleansing”—vaguely reminiscent of China’s Cultural Revolution or the rise of fascism in Europe—are those who scream, vandalize and get “camera time” from media, themselves influencing events and outcomes, rather than objectively reporting them, as was once the standard of good journalism. I’m as sickened as anyone by the legacy of the conquistadors, exactly why I believe such statues must remain—because those who forget history are destined to relive it—and because our “leaders”—a term I use advisedly—should ensure we all get input into the fate of our historic monuments, perhaps with plaques nearby to ensure a full, accurate presentation of a brutal history.
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JUST TAKE A MINUTE Every monument in downtown Santa Fe identified by Mayor Webber for “evaluation” of removal was either removed, graffitied or partially removed. This is what
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we would get out early for Zozobra and the fiestas. They would teach us how Don Diego did wonderful things for Santa Fe. One thing they never taught us is how the Spaniards treated Indians. I learned that much later on my own. I’m ashamed that for so long I never knew and it wasn’t taught in our schools. Although those statues are our history in our city, they show Indians how we as Spanish have no remorse for what our ancestors did. I have remorse. I will learn from my ancestors and I will do better and be better.
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there are public symbols that should not be tolerated and we shouldn’t need constant public demonstrations to get action on this. In the name of respect for Indigenous rights and separation of church and state, please put this monument where it belongs, in a museum or a church.
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happens when there is no communication and [haphazard] approaches in policy making choices. The mayor’s speech was unifying and the proposal of the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was essential. His actions subsequent to that speech were reprehensible. A choice was made to remove everything under the cover of the same night the mayor’s solemn announcement was made. Reportedly, even the governor apparently offered resources. Overreach... This is an opportunity lost. A chance was given to unite our citizens in a way that no other city in the US has proven capable of doing instead of seeing the destruction and vandalism of numerous monuments. This was a chance to open dialogue and let the people choose to remove these symbols and move forward... I went to the protest of the Three Sisters and listened to them. It was beautiful and inspiring. I certainly could understand their desire to remove the monument. But couldn’t all of this have been accomplished with tact and healing? Especially after we’ve observed and we are so raw ourselves from the coronavirus and protests? If the mayor wanted to give us the space for open discussions and transitioning to a new world then there was a far gentler way to accomplish
it…Let’s be the light that’s sorely needed during our country’s darkness and awaken a kinder and multicultural dialogue with our community.
CHARLES STREEPER SANTA FE
UNTAUGHT HISTORIES Born and raised in Santa Fe, traced our family roots back 500 years to Spain, driven out as Jews. I love the City Different, I always have, always will. Our family was very involved in Santa Fe Fiestas, my father was involved in the Fiesta Courts for many years. In school
Spain is a big part of our culture here in New Mexico, good or bad. Even the Native Americans still practice many Spanish traditions. When will you be demolishing the Catholic churches? They are also in the tribes you know…We remember our past, as not to relive it. We learned from it and as long as we are not doing those ignorant atrocities that were done 400 years ago, then we are in a good place. Shame on the cities and towns across New Mexico for removing statues and trying to eradicate the Spanish people and culture of our state.
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Restaurant Vandalized with White Supremacist Messages to be well over $100,000. Among the items stolen or damaged include supplies that Brown and the Singhs would use to create weekly care packages for downtown’s unhoused population. “We do a bag full of food and hygiene products,” Singh’s son Baljot tells SFR. “We throw in some cash—$5, $10.” While recent acts of vandalism against downtown monuments that some consider racist have brought heightened at-
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tention to this sort of crime, this attack is marked by white supremacy, is much more involved and has a personal target. Singh had no reason to expect a crime like this in his community. “I’ve never seen this before, this is the first time. I have security and everything, you know?” he says, referring to the private security company contracted by his landlords. “Recently, with everything opening back up… [security] isn’t needed as much,” says Brown, explaining why security may not have been present to prevent the attack. According to Brown, Santa Fe police were called at 12:58 pm. SFR arrived on the scene at 3:30 pm and police were still not there, although Brown and Singh had given a report via phone to the FBI. Police had just arrived when SFR left the restaurant at 3:50 pm—almost three hours after the initial call for service. Deputy Police Chief Paul Joye tells SFR the case will be
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hen Bajit Singh walked into his downtown restaurant to prepare for a busy dinner service Monday afternoon, he found his restaurant destroyed and racial slurs graffitied all over the walls. “I walked into the kitchen, I saw everything and I was like, hold on, what? What is going on here?” he tells SFR. “White power,” “Trump 2020,” “go home,” and far worse were spray-painted on walls, doors, counters and other surfaces. Some phrases contained threats of violence and derogatory racial slurs. Tables were overturned, glassware was smashed into piles on the floor. The wine racks were emptied, a statue of a goddess was beheaded and computers were stolen. Food warmers were turned over and destroyed. The front desk area was gutted, plates smashed and the kitchen rendered completely unusable. “He [Singh] calls me and said, ‘Someone broke into the restaurant.’ I call his son to get down here and I get down here. I didn’t think it was this bad until I came in,” says Cameron Brown, who works as an assistant at the restaurant and is friend of the Singh family, which has owned the restaurant since 2013. It’s unknown whether or not Brown, a Black man, was also an intended target. He estimates the damage
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investigated as a hate crime. Police, he says, have considered that it might be related to Plaza vandalism which happened around the same time and are actively working both cases, he says. The restaurant has only recently re-opened after being closed due to COVID-19 public health orders, and recent protests in downtown have made the area rife with conflict. According to the Singhs, last Thursday during a Three Sisters Collective protest on the Plaza an armed man incorrectly parked his car in one of India Palace’s spots. When he was asked to move, he threatened the family with his guns; police were called and collected the vehicle’s information. The man identified himself as a nearby business owner before heading in the direction of the Plaza with multiple guns and magazines. While specific perpetrators and motivations are yet unknown, the general cause is clear to Marcus Romero, family friend of the Singhs: “It’s a racial thing, you know?” By Monday night, Santa Feans had started at least five separate crowdfunding efforts to accept donations for the restaurant’s recovery, including a campaign by South Indian restaurant Paper Dosa that raised over $56,000. When SFR was last in touch with the Singh family Tuesday, they had began reaching out to fund organizers to collect the donations but did not yet have an official fund of their own set up. Tuesday morning, the national Council on American-Islamic Relations released a statement condemning the destruction. “This disturbing hate attack once again demonstrates that growing white supremacy, xenophobia, Islamophobia, and racism target every minority community and must be challenged by people of all races, faiths and backgrounds,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “We call on President Trump, whose name was used by the hate vandals, to stop promoting bigotry and division and instead seek to bring our nation together at this time of crisis.”
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uick show of hands: Who’s ready for the next pandemic? Yeah, me neither. After all, I’m still in the middle of this one (The middle? The beginning? Not the end, that’s for sure). Still, prepare we must. Or should. As Foreign Affairs writes in its July/August issue: “This pandemic is probably not ‘the Big One,’ the prospect of which haunts the nightmares of epidemiologists and public health officials everywhere.” My nightmares contain more prosaic concerns (last night I had a very long dream involving a jammed printer and a ham sandwich, for example), but my daytime mind often focuses on the matters at hand: New Mexico’s rate of transmission, new case numbers, new COVID-19 models. In an ideal world, technology will advance in such a way that by the next pandemic, I will be able to instantaneously download enough epidemiological and computational knowledge into my English-major brain to generate SIR models in my sleep, but chances are I will rely on the next generation of scientists for such data. That’s a promising proposition thanks to the Supercomputing Challenge (supercomputingchallenge.org). The New Mexico program, open to students in grades 4 through 12 across the state, allows teen participants to devote themselves to a science project throughout the year involving high-performance super computers.
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Last April, Challenge organizers asked me to help judge the best-written report from a group of finalists. I have graded and judged many papers over the last decade, but this was a particularly rewarding and challenging experience. The student projects included computational solutions to topics such as re-forestation through drone use; computerized police-officer placement; and an activity-by-contact model to predict enhancer-gene connections, among others. As I sheltered in place, I took comfort realizing the next generation will likely solve many of our pressing problems, leaving me free to yell at my printer. Those projects were basically wrapped up when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, but next year’s will likely tackle the scientific challenges wrought by our current moment. To that end, the Supercomputing Challenge is hosting a virtual Summer Science Institute
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on July 16 that will include lightning talks on topics related to the pandemic (such as epidemiology, virus modeling and machine learning). From the lightning talks, students can choose break-out sessions on the topics that interest them most. Supercomputing Challenge Executive Director Paige Prescott tells me it’s the first time the organization is offering a summer institute, an endeavor bolstered by the numerous scientists who serve as volunteer mentors, as well as the view that the novel coronavirus presents a highly teachable moment. “A lot of the camps have closed…and a lot of summer opportunities for kids have not gone forward,” Prescott says, “so we’re riding the energetic wave of our mentors and volunteers, but also helping to fulfill a niche.” After my own judging experience, I had assumed the Supercomputing Challenge— an extra-curricular activity—primarily appeals to high-achieving math and science students. Not so, she says. “We attract students that are really the high achievers and we also attract the middle range students who are kind of like, ‘meh,’ or maybe they get pulled along by their friend and they get inspired, and we
Students in the Supercomputing Challenge spend the year working up projects that use math and science to address real-world problems...like pandemics, for instance.
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draw kids that are not necessarily academically successful grade-wise who can really get into a project and be very successful,” she says. “We feel there is a lot of differentiation and [the program] attracts a wide range.” Prescott became the organization’s executive director in January, has held multiple roles with it since 2007 and also is executive director and co-founder of the Computer Science Alliance. Based on previous experiences, she expects to see many pandemic-related projects from students in next year’s challenge. As COVID-19 became a top news story, students saw how their current computational modeling and data analysis work “is part of problem solving of the future…they got to see the relevance.” In 2009, she notes, the H1N1 pandemic impacted “teenagers more than any other demographic.” Projects that year, and even the year after had an epidemiological focus. “The kids really latch onto things they feel are important to their lives, and they want to iterate on it and usually the projects in supercomputing challenge reflect that as well.” I wondered if the current students might undertake projects with real-world value. Prescott thought it perfectly likely, given that the teens aren’t constrained by government bureaucracy and other limitations faced by their adult counterparts. And even if next year’s projects don’t solve this year’s problems, chances are some students may be inspired to solve future ones. “Many times, kids get into the medical field because of a medical event that either happened to them young or someone they cared for in their immediate network,” Prescott says. “I do think this will spawn more interest in things like data science, things like epidemiology and health care in general. It feels like a call for action. We’ve all learned a lot.” Agreed.
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e met over a mural. The Cowboy Pastor had painted what he believed was an historical rendition of a Comanche conversion story on a wall on West Alameda Street: a Spaniard on horseback sparing a kneeling and penitent Native’s life. As the public forum raged on about what the past looked like and to whom, the Cowboy Pastor’s wife stormed out, yelling that we were picking on her husband because he was white. Others might have considered the mural innocuous, even celebratory, but to those of us speaking against it, it was yet another gross attempt at normalizing the violence of colonization in public space. I didn’t know it yet, but that bitter cold night where words were as incisive as knives, and where truth and history were a battleground, I met my queer community. In the mixed crowd, I saw the person who eventually became my girlfriend and the other brown femmes and dykes who would welcome me into their circle and, in the process, reintroduce me to New Mexico. I remember feeling a sense of curiosity about them—who were they? 10
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Until that point, I’d lived thousands of miles away for many years and had only just returned home. I felt, in returning, like both a guest and a veteran, a sense of belonging that resided between my “here self” and my “East Coast self.” But even in that liminal state, I was convinced I knew this place, convinced that writing about New Mexico from afar had brought me closer. I wasn’t wrong. But I wasn’t exactly right either. I hadn’t really known this place, or myself, until meeting them. Until that night. Until our many outings. And until we built our campfires, both real and metaphorical, around which to share our queerness. We circled our tents around that one campfire in Pilar, where everyone brought one or several dogs, talking into the night and eating s’mores on gluten-free graham crackers. We knew our neighbors probably thought we were too loud, or too much, our laughter on some decibel level of its own. There, and floating down the Rio Grande in tubes, on bike rides under the shadow of the monumental sandstone walls of
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Chaco Canyon, or atop a hill in Glorieta roasting hot dogs, I learned and am still learning what it means to feel at home in myself, and in New Mexico. How to be both vulnerable and strong and to really feel the radicalism of investing in self care. Not the self care sold on Instagram, the kind that has become commodified and packaged as a hashtag, but the care of the self that is political, as Audre Lorde once wrote. Our campfires, wherever we are, whether tables at restaurants, backyards, or cars on long drives, were and still are places of congregation, reflection and politicization. Around the campfire at Elephant Butte, we set up the biggest back-ofthe-truck buffet there ever was. We laughed and talked shit and laughed some more. There, and on the hikes up in Hyde Park, or switchbacking along the side of Sun Mountain, I learned that queerness can look all sorts of ways. That one does not need to be white to enjoy the outdoors in Santa Fe, even if there’s always a sideways glance from the white hikers, like an open question mark asking us whether we belong. I
learned that our being together, our full expression of selfhood, sometimes frightens and offends others, because— like at the bowling alley that one time for my birthday—we didn’t abide by their politics of respectability, a covenant inscribed in whiteness, and were handily kicked out. I’ve learned more here, in my queer community, than in the halls of academia, where identity politics have always been theoretical, and where liberalism is code for status quo. The campfires we’ve built are invitations to gather and process, to constantly, with humor and love, make sense of our own intersections, and of all the selves we inhabit. Where we wonder aloud in sometimes-confused/still-processing garble how to take back our bodies from the grips of mens’ gazes or why white supremacy has infiltrated our own behaviors, words and ways of being in the world. It’s where we hold up mirrors to see all our selves and make them into wholes. That first night I wondered who they were. And now, knowing them, I’m understanding who I am, too.
This issue almost didn’t happen. Like many businesses everywhere, SFR was not immune to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and tough decisions needed to be made. But then an interesting thing happened: Upon hearing of our struggles, Kyle Farrell of DIY arts outfit Strangers Collective reached out to ask what we might need to make it happen. Less than 24 hours later, Strangers had partnered with form & concept gallery (where Farrell’s partner and former SFR columnist Jordan Eddy is the gallery director) and the Santa Fe Playhouse to offer no-strings funding. The result of that incredibly kind gesture is in your hands or on your screen. It isn’t lost on us that this year is particularly fraught but, like always, we simply asked queer
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ummer 2020: COVID-19 dictates the law, fascism is on the rise within our federal government and we are full blown in the beginning of global revolution against anti-Black racism in this country. So here’s my unofficial announcement: This year Pride™ is canceled, along with the rest of our regularly scheduled programming and daily life as we once knew it. This is a new era in which the wind has blown up the American skirt and shown all of our poverty and dysfunction, how we devalue our communities of color; and rampant police forces feed a lucrative private prison system which steals funding and resources from our communities, leaving us with skeletal social service infrastructure. This is a new time, and the movement is on fire—COVID-19 risk or not. We are on the precipice of change, and if you haven’t started to do something worth carrying into the new world, it’s time to get started. As of June 15, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch catapulted our nation into a new chapter wherein we, citizens of the LGBTQIAP+ community, are officially declared “protected” by the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Gorsuch’s dissent from Liar-in-Chief Donald Trump’s white supremacist plan to decimate any future for us is just the dose of medicine we needed amid yet another disgusting display of our country’s brutality and willingness to destroy its own citizens.
Gorsuch wrote: “An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex.” This ruling extends civil rights protections in all 50 states to the 7 million-plus citizens who fall beyond the confines of the gender binary. This is one small victory within a long list of needs and demands from those most vulnerable. It must be understood that a declaration of safety is not, in fact, safety—a declaration of civility and equal treatment under law is, in fact, not a guarantee of civility or equal treatment under law. At last, the citizenry’s willingness to dismantle systems and institutions of oppression and violence is no longer dormant. We again owe the fight for liberation, equity and respect to Black and Brown and Indigenous people for their leadership and the inescapable reality of doing this work every moment of every day, whether they want to or not. They do not get a choice—neither do you or I. If you’re white-skinned and white-passing, like me, you have an undeniable amount of privilege, and it’s time you begin to excavate it, acknowledge it and talk about it with other white and lightskinned people. It’s time each of us learn to leverage that privilege and power for the greater good. It begins by taking a long, hard look in the mirror and finding your starting point, then doing continuous anti-racism work. My anger is a luxury I can express without being killed. If I’m given a platform and the expectations and freedoms of a white man, then I intend to change this platform by participating within it. I don’t get to be
voices in our community to write what matters to them. Whether that’s Alicia Inez Guzmán recounting her return to New Mexico and finding her queer community, Anastasio Wrobel asking us to think deeper, JC Gonzo musing on the timing of Lady Gaga’s newest, the Calvin “Brandi” Fields experience or Oriana Lee highlighting notable Black locals, it’s in here. We understand this can’t touch on everything, but it’s Pride month, and these voices deserve to be heard. As for the cover art by SFR super-friend Shelby Criswell, well, we know that it depicts a world we all miss. But it’s about safe spaces and hope for the future. It’s about coming together surrounded by what matters most.
tired. I don’t get to be scared. I don’t get to take a break or stay quiet right now. The revolution is here, and we need to turn to leadership of color. If you have a Black- or Indigenous- or transgender-run organization in your city or state, find out how you can get involved or donate some money. In New Mexico, we’re blessed with several. Tewa Women United (tewawomenunited.org). Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico (tgrcnm.org).
Santa Fe Dreamers Project (santafedreamersproject.org). The Red Nation (therednation.org) And these are just a few places you can research before deepening your support for the liberation of all people. It will take people from all classes, all genders, all sexualities and all backgrounds working towards change, and we must get started in every small way we can. No matter how small your action is, it matters. White-skinned and caucasian people who are just waking up and getting involved the first time? Welcome. If you have excess income, consider setting up recurring donations to people and organizations of color. Speak out against racism in your community—at the post office, the grocery store or wherever you encounter it. Tell your friends when you find a business that is run by queer, trans, Black, Indigenous and other people of color and support them generously. This fight is going to require a lot from you. It is not something you can pick and choose to interact with, you must embody it and bestow it to those in your life. Call out. Don’t delete racists in your life—teach them. There is an array of ways for you to plug in if you cannot physically be on the front lines, and you have an obligation to perform behind-the-scenes tasks that must continue for the movement to flourish. Hundreds of years, millions of atrocities, systemic racism, sexism, state and federal funded violence, Indigenous erasure, the exploitation of Black and Brown bodies built our country into what it is today and now we are seeing an active decry against that brutality. As we navigate an uncertain present and wait for an unknown future, you can get on the right side of history and speak out against injustice. It’s what we have to do at this time, in any and every way that we can.
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elcome to planet Chromatica. Lady Gaga has “deleted” and subsequently “canceled” Earth, inviting us to a very gay, very pink, emotional hellscape with an introductory verse asking “Could you pull me out of this alive?” The album, Gaga’s sixth, dropped on May 29 after facing COVID-19 setbacks and leaks sidelining what was set to be her grand return to the world of dance-pop, a genre she’s largely abandoned since her most fascinating, catastrophic spectacle—2013’s Artpop. Then, on Memorial Day, the tragic murder of George Floyd by police officers had been recorded and the video rapidly circulated online. The ensuing wave of vital protests and riots consumed social media feeds and floods streets internationally to this day. This last straw for the systemic and chronic abuse of power needed and warranted the nation’s undivided attention and commitment. As the album was set to arrive at midnight on May 29, fans eagerly waited that Thursday evening, the same Thursday the National Guard was deployed to Minneapolis; Twitter was aflame with righteous indignation and could spare no room. “Chromatica can wait” echoed countless users, and what would’ve normally
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trended at the top of Twitter’s algorithms quickly dissipated. Rightfully so, Gaga canceled her virtual listening party and quickly shifted focus. Chromatica could wait. The general public’s insatiable need for constant entertainment and distraction was being replaced with a virtuous rage. Could a piece of entertainment flourish as an international, commercial success without being at the center of public discourse? Would people still listen to Chromatica amidst a political and social call to action and pandemic? Ultimately, the album reigned top chart slots in numerous territories worldwide while becoming the top selling album of the year for a female artist in the United States. But, why? Chromatica’s succes is surprising. Perhaps I miscalculated the public’s relationship with art and entertainment. It was, however, virtually nowhere to be seen on social media, and mostly positive reviews made way for more pressing, essential headlines. Chromatica, regardless of any intention, has been shaped and contextualized by a global pandemic and social unrest. The lead single, “Stupid Love” arrived earlier in spring, teasing fans with
electro-driv a taste of the electro-driven beats they’ve sorely missed since the faux-unfaux-un plugged Americana of 2016’s Joanne and 2018’s A Born. “Stupid Love” Star is Born provided refreshing, vivid and, well, stupid imagery of roving dance gangs battling on a foreign planet like a lost scene from a gayer Mad Max. maxiBrilliant. The high camp, maxi malist queen was back… right? By this point, Chromatica seems to be an alternate dimension, a sci-fi escape into a utopian vision of Gaga’s weaving. I was sure I’d know what the album would be once B-movie auteur Robert Rodriguez— who last worked with Gaga on Machete— helmed the video for its second single, “Rain On Me.” I was wrong. While Chromatica drives forward with a full-on ’90s house/acid/trance revival, it sinks lyrically into the pits of self-doubt and the stress of fame. Gaga reveals herself to be a reluctant pop star with lyrics centered around her being down “in a hole,” “sick and tired of waking up,” being “in a prison hell,” “completely lonely” and “visibly bleeding.” Gaga is not okay. The single “Rain On Me” had initially seemed like a standalone, melodramatic expulsion complete with daggers falling from the sky in the midst of a cyberpunk rave. Now, it fits more in line with the album than the lead single, “Stupid Love,” whose frivolity feels out of place. Chromatica is less the Bowie-esque concept album ready for Pride month dancefloors, and more of a deep dive into pop catharsis. Gaga pleads and whines her way through each track asking not to be hurt, toyed with or taken for granted. Her most telling song, “911,” chronicles her reliance on antipsychotics as she robotically proclaims her biggest enemy is herself. If you can catch the verses rapidly fluttering by, it’s like she resents her
public persona. Beyond “911,” Gaga offers little insight into her own inner turmoil beyond general proclamations of misery. This isn’t to say empowerment, validation and hope aren’t present on the album. There’s power in vulnerability and introspection, even if she only touches on it skin-deep; it’s no secret younger generations face high levels of anxiety and depression, with conversations around mental health coming to the forefront as a necessary subject relevant to everyone. Without Chromatica’s mostly somber tone, it might not have made its way to the top of the charts in this moment; while the album’s topics of fame and identity are unrelated and irrelevant to the crises at hand, themes of coping, grappling and suffering allow its songs to be digested a little more easily. How many Little Monsters streamed Chromatica while checking the latest COVID-19 numbers? How many sang along to “Rain On Me” in the shower before or after attending a protest? In these times, the average listener might feel more at home relating to Gaga’s internal battles than bragging of glitz, glamour and excess. There is little to argue with on Chromatica other than there is little to argue with, an expectation that perhaps comes from her more provocative past. With society trudging through a sweeping pandemic and combating violent, systemic oppression, a more daring, experimental Gaga might not have been welcomed with such warm, open arms. For an artist who’s spent the better half of a decade trying to produce a sincere, personal record, Gaga may have finally achieved it, and not by way of heartfelt ballads. Yes, she has a fervent following that would’ve ensured success on some level regardless of any global situation, but it’s the degree of success sans the massive trending, online viral presence and with all circumstances stacked against it that makes it an intriguing pop-cultural moment.
PRIDE For the Love of My Community An iconic queer Santa Fean reflects on the last 22 years B Y C A LV I N “ B R A N D I ” F I E L D S
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et me start by saying Happy Pride, everyone. This is a very interesting year to be celebrating Pride and justice for ALL. We started 2020 by welcoming COVID-19 into our lives, followed by the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, George Floyd in Minnesota and then Rayshard Brooks, also in Georgia—all Black men killed by white people, some police officers. Now we are dealing not only with protecting our citizens from the virus, but protecting the people taking to the streets for Black Lives Matter. I am a proud Black man, but I am a queer, crossdressing Black woman who wants everyone to know that my life matters on so many levels and to so many people. I am not a figment of your imagination, nor are my Black brothers who are constantly harassed and murdered at the hands of rogue police. We all have to live here on this planet and we must learn to respect one another. We are not our ancestors, and we should be able to evolve into a loving, caring society. I moved to Santa Fe in August of 1997 and have never looked back. Growing up in Virginia, my life was completely different, and I always felt like I was missing something. I needed to be a better per-
son and I had to live my truth without regrets. When I got off the plane that Friday over 22 years ago, I swore I was going to start my new chapter with open eyes, mind and soul; this was going to be my chance to be all I knew I could be. Santa Fe, I quickly realized, was opening me up. The stars were aligning for me. I was about to embark on my new life, and the love I had been searching for was staring me in the face—all I had to do was open up my heart. I quickly got involved with the local community and found my way to the LGBTQ community that changed my world for the better. My first-ever Pride event was in Santa Fe in 1998, and I was just so touched by how the LGBTQ world celebrated life, love and togetherness. That was also the year the AIDS Quilt came to town, which was a memorable and life-changing event. I saw so many people come together to celebrate the lives of family, friends and loved ones. It made me want to do more. As the years went on, I started working with the organization Aid & Comfort, which helps raise funds to fight HIV and AIDS at its annual gala. I’ve worked with many other wonderful organizations in Santa Fe, as well, and some might say I’ve become a poster child for helping nonprofits in some way or another. Really, it’s a way for me to give back to a community I call home and that I love beyond words.
My love for Santa Fe is real and diverse. We have a community unlike any other, and we’ve gone through so many changes over the years—especially when it comes to Pride. I remember when we’d start the celebrations with DJ Oona’s Trash Disco party at the sadly closed Paramount nightclub, followed by Drag Bingo with Brandi (and a guest). We’d get up the next day to watch the parade travel from the Roundhouse to the Plaza, and there we’d dance and play before regrouping for the EPIC DJs booked by promoter Van Roy. Yes, those were some amazing times—and thank you to the Paramount’s founder Donalee Goodbrod for all the memories.
I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention the wonderful Pride parties at gonebut-not-forgotten clubs like Swig, the block parties at Rouge Cat/Blue Rooster and the convention center courtyard. Yes, Santa Fe had a pulse back in the day. We still have a pulse but we need to reenergize it; our community is strong and alive, but we need to get out again and let our voices be heard, especially those within the LGBTQ community and people of color. We need to make sure everyone knows we are here, and that our lives matter. If you know me, be it in the flesh or from out and about, you probably know I’m a genuine person who will do ap whatever I can to make others feel appreciated and loved. During this Pride mo season, please remember to take a moment to tell your own LGBTQ family and friends that you love and support them. It means so much to know you have people in your corner. I love you all and will raise you up to celebrate all you do for our community. Kudos to the Supreme Court for upholding the laws and making it illegal to discriminate against our LGBTQ brothers and sisters in the workplace. We offer so much and our value is worth as much as anyone else’s. Let us remember that as we celebrate PRIDE 2020 virtually because so we want to practice social distancing properly. #LoveYouSantaFe
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hen I took up residence in this high mountain desert in 2013, having been brought here once before in 2009 to perform as an MC/rapper/poet by a local Black promoter, I immediately experienced the duality of my queerness and my blackness as easier to navigate than back in the Bible Belt. Santa Fe has a reputation for being widely accepting of artists and eccentrics, which translates as a spirit of inclusion unduplicated in other cities. I totally felt that. Shontez Morris, a visual artist and senior account manager for a local security company, attests that taking the risk to uproot from Atlanta, Georgia, by way of Brooklyn, to move here at the invitation of a friend (interestingly, the same promoter who originally brought me here), was a complete game-changer. As a Black woman identifying as bisexual, she testifies that, “coming here opened up a lot of my inner consciousness. It’s amazing the growth that I’ve experienced.” Our state capital had its first openly gay mayor a few years ago, which is quite progressive, yet somehow the scene is lacking social outlets for LGBTQ+ community. The Q is sometimes pretty silent for queer folx, making dating a real challenge. Morris says, for her, “dating here is pretty nonexistent,” and that she primarily does so when she travels to other places. Also serving on the board for the Santa Fe Pride and Human Rights Alliance, Morris boldly suggests the organization support Black lives as a focus for this year’s virtual Pride celebration happening on June 27 (12-4 pm, hrasantafe.org). As we focus on equality and dismantling white supremacy, being LQBTQ+ is simply another complexity. When Attiana Ray-Fuentes arrived in 2006 from New York, she found herself somewhat disappointed by the nightlife, the lack of access to an active queer com-
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munity and the slim Black presence in general. By 2013, with New Mexico on the forefront of recognizing same-sex marriages in the US, Ray-Fuentes noticed a shift in the queer community that felt more cohesive. Now, Ray-Fuentes is noticing even more change, recognizing “society has shifted in terms of how queer folx are accepted and embraced.” And while admitting there are moments when she feels unsafe, Santa Fe finally “feels like home.” Ray-Fuentes has since married and added a sweet newborn to her family. Ray-Fuentes has worked in the nonprofit sector for many years and is now program coordinator for the Santa Fe Public Schools’ Adelante program. She expresses gratitude for “the privilege of being out in the workplace and in
the community,” and says she’s primarily felt supported and respected as a queer Black woman in leadership—and even had colleagues stand up for her right to be herself unapologetically. Morris, on the other hand, has often been forced to assert her authority, combating claims of reverse discrimination and experiencing blatant racism from white, Native and Hispanic men alike who’ve felt challenged by her authority. Unfortunately, Morris has also dealt with name calling, being physically assaulted, even having been spat on. “I’ve had to work damn hard to establish
When we sell our history to corporate America and allow police into our parades we do an injustice to the memory of those we have come before us and have died. Our Black Trans sisters are still being murdered. -Ray-Fuentes
myself here in the industry,” Morris says, though she generally has a great relationship with clients, business owners and even law enforcement in the community (as her unique heart-centered approach to law enforcement has changed the way many view the profession). When writer Jada White moved to Madrid (a small town just South of Santa Fe) from DC in 2013, she felt respected and protected as a Black lesbian woman in an interracial relationship. She was living in a place where Queer folx had been at the helm of the town’s resettling in the ’70’s, along with other artists and hippies, though White laments that even in open-minded Santa Fe county, “being gay and Black can still feel like second class citizenship.” “Our identities as gay and Black folk are intertwined and cannot be separated,” White says. Just how people of African descent, allies and accomplices will keep the momentum going around the change and growth we all seek is a concern for White. The idea that “life is a marathon, not a sprint, is important for us to keep in mind,” she says. “We want to see lasting change.” White has been vocal about Black injustices via social networking and on her radio show which broadcasts on the Madrid-based LPFM station KMRD 96.1 FM on Saturday mornings from 8-9 am. There, she focuses on “conscious conversation, music, and spoken word.” In honoring Pride month, Ray-Fuentes reminds us not to forget the real purpose of the parades, as corporatization has crept in and monetized the rainbow. “Remember during Pride season where we come from, how and why we have Pride parades, and the whole history surrounding,” she says. “When we sell our history to corporate America and allow police into our parades we do an injustice to the memory of those we have come before us and have died. Our Black trans sisters are still being murdered. We cannot leave our Black trans folk behind.” A monumental message as we band together for the justice of Black people. We must keep in mind that indeed, ALL Black lives matter.
RESISTANCE AND REST After months of pandemic lockdown, it’s been such a relief to feel the mass energy of global racial justice uprisings and to get out in the street with other people. Yet, this relief is mixed with deep grief, feeling overwhelmed and horror at the violence being perpetrated against Black, Indigenous and people of color in this country. As most of us know, this relentless racial violence is certainly not new—it is the underpinning of capitalism and the foundation of the US as a colonial project—but the ability for millions of people around the world to witness it on social media is rapidly shifting public awareness and energizing enormous outcry. Incredible things are happening. Here in New Mexico, statues of murderous conquistadores and obelisks commemorating genocide are finally being removed after decades of action by Indigenous activists and allies. Cities across the country are moving to disband or defund police departments. And yet, alongside these victories, more Black people have been lynched and shot by police in just the last couple weeks. New Mexico is not immune from police violence—the state actually has the highest per capita rate of police killings in the entire country. We have so much work to do. The prospect is simultaneously energizing and exhausting. When I think about how to organize for liberation in a way that is sustainable on a human level, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the genius of Black, Brown and Indigenous-led movements for disability justice and healing justice. Visionaries like Patti Berne, Leroy Moore, Staci Milbern, Mia Mingus, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and many, many more have done so much to articulate what it could look like to care deeply for each other and ourselves as we work for justice, and to imagine what could be possible if we make our movements accessible to every body and every mind. They remind us that there are so many ways to participate in change, and conventional street protest and its accompanying urgency is only one of them.
Necessary Magic is a semi-regular column wherein writer and artist Jacks McNamara explores queer issues, liberatory politics, magical creatures and other relevant topics. Learn more at jacksmcnamara.net.
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If you’re involved in the current movements for change, it’s a heady and overwhelming time. The feeling of urgency is inescapable. For the first time since my daughter’s birth, I am diving back into organizing white folks to show up in support of BIPOC-led movements for racial justice, and trying to figure out how to maintain some kind of life/work/health/ activism balance while doing so. A barrage of new tasks have appeared on my to-do list, plus an evermultiplying array of communication channels to stay on top of, plus the constant calls to action to sign this petition, email that politician, raise this money or show up at that protest. As a chest-feeding parent and a person with mental health needs, I’m acutely aware of my limitations—I’m unwilling to put my body in danger or get arrested these days, and I generally need to be home for bedtime—so I’m exploring what contributions make sense in this moment, in this body. Many of the folks I’m close to are running a fairly manic pace right now, and I’m deeply curious about how we can slow down and be even more effective, even more durable. Lately I’ve been deeply moved by the work of Tricia Hersey, a Black artist, activist, theologian and founder of The Nap Ministry, who is doing a brilliant job articulating why rest can actually be a form of resistance, and how for Black folks, rest is an essential form of reparations. In her analysis, rest pushes back against and disrupts capitalism and white supremacy. On a recent episode of the podcast For the Wild, Hersey asserts that “to not rest is really being violent towards your body, to align yourself with a system that says your body doesn’t belong to you, keep working, you are simply a tool for our production.” In the current historical moment, she says she wants to see white people on the front lines and Black people able to be at home healing and grieving. It is a powerful vision I want to support. As a white person, I find myself in contemplation of a paradox: What does it mean to be deeply engaged in work for liberation while making space for a rest that is not avoidance? Can we embody the world we want to be living in while we are doing the labor to dismantle systems of oppression? I believe the answer is yes.
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If you’ve been in the clubs and the venues in the last pretty-much-always, you’ve seen musician Ron Crowder holding a guitar or banging some drums, and now he’s taking that know-how and turning it toward the philanthropic. Crowder’s got a new rock song called “This is the Moment” just dying to premiere, and he’s gonna make sure that any proceeds that come its way head to Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery’s Navajo and Hopi Donation Drive and Relief Fund. Both areas have seen high instances of COVID-19, and Tumbleroot has been donating hand sanitizer and other PPE like crazy. With Crowder onboard, maybe even more can happen? Either way, to hear the song and a Crowder interview, tune in to 98.1 KBAC FM when it drops this Friday—to learn more, preorder or donate, visit roncrowder.bandcamp.com. (ADV). Ron Crowder Song Premiere: 3 pm Friday, June 26. Free. 98.1 KBAC FM/santafe.com
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really went hard on, like, ‘we can do a queer show, we’re queer performers.’ We express that queerness a lot. Like, we don’t hide any of it,” says Morgon Sedusa, a burlesque performer and founding member of Santa Fe’s newest burlesque troupe, House of Fantasia. Their Valentine’s Day show at Desert Dogs in February went down in the books as one of the steamiest shows to ever hit downtown. If you were there, you know what was up—it was almost unbearably packed with a young, hot, queer crowd all loving each other without reserve, freely getting turned on by the dancers and loudly hooting their approval. If you weren’t there…betcha wish you were, huh? The beautiful thing about the emergence of this new radical sexy queer space is that it wasn’t at all planned like that. “There wasn’t an inherent queer focus in our initiation, so to speak, but I think because the [burlesque] process so honestly asks of us, like, do you, and it turns out our troop is extraordinarily queer,” Sedusa explains. “That’s what we did. We did us, and we were queer. Even though we didn’t have an agenda for it.”
The group includes six core performers, with a range of experience levels and backgrounds from around the country. What started as a series of workshops evolved into individual dancers’ performances at Honeymoon Brewery’s monthly New Moon Cabaret, which coalesced into the group now known as House of Fantasia. “The real glue of our troupe was our Valentine’s Day performance,” says Dreama Fantasia, headmistress and founding member of House of Fantasia. Fantasia moved to Santa Fe from the Washington, DC area in early 2019 and noticed a lack of grassroots burlesque, so she started offering classes. “It was a natural, organic unfolding,” she tells SFR. “We all got very close because the second workshop is focused on finding your burlesque self…that is a really intimate, meaningful process oftentimes for people…like your empowered burlesque persona comes through.” This act of persona-creation is fundamental to burlesque, but it’s also been useful for the performers in developing their queer identities. Take Morgon Sedusa’s character, for example (it’s Morg-ON, by the way, not Morgan). “I’ve imagined her as like the literal modern reincarnation of Medusa as a trans woman,” she says. “The discovery of Morgon runs in parallel with generally my entire gender journey.” She points to the little-known history of Medusa as being a powerful female goddess in other ancient cultures who was appropriated and re-interpreted
by the patriarchal Greek culture into a weaponized form of femininity. “That entire story, it makes way too much sense for me personally, as my trans experience, living in this world and growing up and being told who I am and having to carve that identity out for myself and then receiving that backlash or support or whatever…my entire burlesque character is queer.” Dancer They von Gay, who was a crowd favorite at the Valentine’s Day show, shares similar sentiments. “The feeling of being not queer enough, or feeling like I don’t belong, or maybe I’m not valid, when I’m They von Gay, it’s just completely not a question,” they say. “That character for me is a way to escape my own internalized transphobia and share this love
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The cradle of our species has some strong, albeit limited, representation in our city. Most prominent is chef Ahmed Obo’s Jambo Café (2010 Cerrillos Road, 473-1269), which has won accolades from SFR’s Best of Santa Fe readers poll for the past bazillion years in a row. His menu is drawn from North and East African cuisines, with a healthy dose of Carribean to boot. The jerk chicken sandwich ($10.95) is easy but exciting: pillowy pita surrounds flavorful, juicy chicken topped with a spicy tomato sauce. There are a lot of vegetarian and vegan options too, including a coconut lentil stew ($12.95) and a tofu curry ($13.95). Keep an eye out for both the Jambo Hapa food trucks as well. We’d be remiss to not mention Cleopatra Café (418 Cerrillos Road, 8207381; 3482 Zafarano Dr., 474-5644) in this space. Named after the famously powerful African queen, the menu at Cleopatra’s two locations is inspired by the whole eastern Mediterranean and North African region, with a killer falafel sandwich ($6.95) and Egyptian kebab plates ($15.95). 2
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Asia: It’s a huge place with countless cultures and even its own subcontinent, so I can’t pretend to be comprehensive. But to start, I love a good bowl of Vietnamese pho, and we’re graced with two restaurants that
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Italian cuisine is well-represented in Santa Fe, with Trattoria a Mano (227 Galisteo St., 982-3700) and Il Piatto (95 W Marcy St., 984-1091) offering fine dining experiences. Pizzeria da Lino (204 N Guadalupe St.,982-8474) is owned and managed by actual Italian Lino Pertusini, and his food is consistently delish, but recently I keep returning to Midtown’s Pizzeria Espiritu (1722 St Michaels Dr. Ste. A, 424-8000), with its ceiling mural of Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” creating a divine (and denuded) atmosphere out of its strip mall abode. Saveur Bistro (204 Montezuma Ave., 989-4200) makes French food a little more accessible with a daily lunch buffet, soups and sandwiches and is a favorite for state employees on a quick lunch break. 4 Central and South America
have “pho” in their names: Pho Ava (2430 Cerrillos Road, 557-6572) and Pho Kim (919 W Alameda St., 820-6777), both with their own particular followings and offering similar menus. A bowl of beef pho will run you about $11 at both places. We also have several restaurants with owners from India, including India Palace downtown (227 Don Gaspar Ave., 9865859; temporarily closed after being targeted by hateful vandalism) and India House farther down the Cerrillos corridor (2501 Cerrillos Road, 471-2651). If you’re unfamiliar with the cuisine, try India House’s lunch buffet for $8.95, with a wide range of northern Indian meat and vegetarian dishes for you to sample. In the Chinese category, find places like Lulu’s (takeout and delivery; 3011 Cerrillos Road, 473-9898) and Chow’s Asian Bistro (takeout only; 720 St Michaels Dr., 471-7120) with traditional sit-down experiences and wide
menus. Another good to-go Chinese place on the north side is Chopstix (238 N Guadalupe St., 820-2126), with super-friendly service but an early closing time of 6:50pm. Japanese restaurant and sushi bar Kohnami (313 S Guadalupe St., 9842002) serves a unique dish that you can’t find anywhere else in town, and it’s actually Korean: the doltsotbap, a big stone bowl that gets heated in an oven, then brought to your table where rice, veggies and meats are fried inside ($14.95-$17.95). It requires a bit of attention to keep the rice from burning, but the richness of the flavor improves the longer you sit with it. Relative newcomer Tibet Kitchen (3003 S St Francis Dr., 982-6796) impresses with generous portions of traditional Tibetan food at low prices. Get down with some momo: traditional steamed dumplings that come in veggie, chive ($8.99 each for 8 pieces) or beef ($9.99).
Pupusas are having their moment, with at least three restaurants dedicated to the El Salvadorean staple: Midtown food truck La Loncherita Salvadoreña (1741 Llano St., 316-2228), the simply named Pupuseria Restaurant at the Days Inn hotel (2900 Cerrillos Road, 474-3512), and Pupuseria Y Lonchera La Providencia (3920 Rodeo Road, 231-8617), another food truck. They each offer up the thick, stuffed corn pancakes for just a couple dollars each, making it affordable to try a bunch of different types—and we’ll let you judge which out of the three is best. Venturing further south in Latin America, the city is home to two restaurants dedicated to Peruvian food: Cuchara del Inca Peruvian Restaurant (317 Aztec St., 666-1577) and Sabor Peruano in the DeVargas Center (163 Paseo De Peralta, 358-3829). Cuchara del Inca aims for a more elevated experience at reasonable prices, while the whimsical Sabor Peruano has lots of vegan and vegetarian-friendly options.
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When Bugs Bunny appeared as Brunhilda, looking hot AF in a bikini on the back of a rainbow unicorn, Elmer Fudd fell in wuv. But when he found out his Hilda was instead the very “him” he’d been hunting, Fudd reacted with anger, turning bedeviled red with renewed threats of murder. That Warner Bros. cartoon episode What Opera, Doc? aired in 1950 and repeated the trope of transwomen as a target of violence that was already ingrained in television and movies. More than four decades later, at the end of Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, the audience is supposed to leave in stitches as everyone on screen vomits at the sight of a penis tucked into a pair of the villain’s underwear. From the earliest silent films, through the cross-dressing Norman Bates in Psycho and the Showtime lesbian-focused miniseries The L Word, (whose transman Max marked the first of his kind on television), the documentary Disclosure revisits the medium through the
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You’re never going to mistake Ella Fitzgerald for another voice, and though a new documentary about the singer is an interesting enough look back over a storied career, it’s what we might call an “eat your vegetables” kind of experience. Director Leslie Woodhead (Diana: The Day Britain Cried) gives us the inside scoop on Fitzgerald, from her early days at the Apollo Theater to touring with drummer Chick Webb, hooking up with manager Norman Granz to delve into the Great American Songbook, facing racism, love issues, late-in-life happenings and more. Through interviews with family, friends and descendants of those who were there— plus TV performances and interview footage, old recordings and radio appearances—we’re not only reminded that Fitzgerald sang flawlessly (seriously, though—flawlessly), we’re reminded that America’s long-standing issues with racism have pretty much always intersected with white folks’ fascination with Black culture.
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eyes of contemporary trans actors and writers. Their personal reflections land on the nuanced joy of understanding transness through the depiction in the television and films as well as the terror of the perpetuation of stereotype and sanctioned cruelty. We would watch anything co-producer Laverne Cox puts her name to, but hearing her talk about what it felt like to see a trans character on The Jeffersons or watch the “disclosure” episode of Nip/Tuck, for example, took that admiration to a new level. So too, did words from the likes of Jazzmun, Bianca Leigh and Jen Richards.
Even at the height of her powers, Fitzgerald struggled to break into the mainstream (it took Marilyn Monroe promising to attend nightly shows for Fitzgerald to get out of the small jazz club circuit and onto theater stages), and even as a post-WWII America ravenously bought up her albums, she never quite got the credit she was due while she was alive. After her death, sadly, is a different story, and her contributions to jazz, bebop and improvisational singing are, of course, well-documented. Still, Woodhead doesn’t give newcomers much of a reason to care, and the facts and information fly at us at breakneck speed. If one does their homework prior to watching It’s Just One of Those Things, they’re bound to find a lot to love, but it’s hard to recommend to those unfamiliar with jazz, torch songs and/ or the music of the era. In other words, if you already love this woman, Woodhead’s doc will cement it further. If you don’t, however, you’re not likely to find this film, let alone let it wash over you. This isn’t a good thing, of course, but the hallmark of a really powerful documentary is in its ability to teach us something new… this one practically screams “We all love Ella? Good.” (Alex De Vore)
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Director Sam Feder should be commended for the approach: not just critique of the mainstream, but also a window into defiant and celebratory depictions of trans characters. Ever heard of the 1968 documentary The Queen? How about 1990s Paris is Burning, or better yet 2018’s Pose, which center the story of trans women of color? There’s so much more to tell—and better ways to tell it—than The Crying Game.
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In the grunge-led history of early ’90s rock, while Nirvana was distilling punk, Sonic Youth was entering the mainstream and Beck’s “Loser” was the radio/MTV hit du jour, one little band from Dayton, Ohio, came outta nowhere to rewrite the rules. But just as the group was getting courted by the majors, upending the festivals and settling into a rhythm, the tragic and bizarre loss of their leader cut the story short. They were Brainiac, and they were everything. With a career that includes far more producer credits than not, filmmaker Eric Mahoney dons his director’s cap to tell Brainiac’s story—one that began with leader/ singer/songwriter Tim Taylor performing in jazz bands with his dad and ended on the eve of massive success; Taylor, sadly, died in a freak car accident in 1997, just as Brainiac was poised to make the big bucks and big impact, and checking in with the surviving members today is all too solemn a reminder that fame is fleeting, but lost friendships sting the hardest.
DISCLOSURE Directed by Feder, with Cox, Jazzmun, Leigh and Richards Netflix, TV-MA, 100 min.
Mahoney’s Brainiac reverence is front and center, ditto for the numerous musicians who made it big and cite the band as one of the reasons why. As At the Drive-In’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala points out in the film, with the world in love with grunge circa-1990-something, for a band to take elements of jazz, funk, punk, whatever Devo is and pop, throw it in a blender of experimentation and come out the other side with actually cohesive (and marketable) songs was a miracle. It still feels miraculous and powerful so many years later. Transmissions After Zero brilliantly inserts the music of Brainiac as both reminders of excellence and emotional cues, and the final product is easily one of the most vulnerable series of interviews in a music documentary. Even so, minimal information about surviving members’ lives post-Brainiac feel all too brief, and there are only so many times you can hear someone say “It was crazy, man!” Mahoney still provides a unique doc, and one that’s guaranteed to win new fans (full disclosure: I’d never even heard of the band, of which I’m ashamed), stoke up the old standbys and remind us that sometimes weirdos wind up doing good. (ADV)
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In addition to being a magnificent storyteller, Aries author Barbara Kingsolver raises chickens at her home. “There are days when I am envious of my hens,” she writes, “when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.” Do you ever experience that delightful rush of assurance, Aries? I suspect that you’re likely to do so on multiple occasions in the coming weeks. And if you are indeed visited by visions of a perfect and sure purpose, your next task will be to initiate practical action to manifest it in the real world.
to listen well and ask good questions, which help enable them to accurately read people’s emotional energy; 3. their knack for knowing specific tricks that promote harmony and a common sense of purpose. If you possess any of these talents, dear Libra, the next eight weeks will be a favorable time to employ them with maximum intensity and ingenuity and integrity. You’re primed to acquire and wield more leverage.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is only one kind of erotic intimacy between consenting adults that can truly be called “unnatural”: an act that is physically TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Nobel Prize-winning impossible to perform. Everything else is potentially Taurus physicist Richard Feynman got his undergradu- vitalizing and holy. No one knows this better than you ate degree from prestigious MIT and his PhD from Scorpios. You’re the champions of exotic pleasure; the prestigious Princeton University. Later he taught at connoisseurs of blissful marvels; the masters of curiprestigious Caltech. But his approach to education ous delight and extraordinary exultation. And from an had a maverick quality. “Study hard what interests you astrological perspective, the coming weeks will be a the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and time when these aspects of your character could be original manner possible,” he advised his students. I especially vivid. But wait a minute. What about the think his strategy will work well for you in the coming pandemic? What about social-distancing? What weeks, which will be a favorable time to gather valuabout being cautious in seeking intimate connection? able information and polish your existing aptitudes. If anyone can work around these constraints so as to have sexual fun, it’s your tribe. Use your imagination! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a phase when you’ll have the potential to upgrade and fine-tune SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 22 your relationship with money. In the hope of encourag- years old, Sagittarian-born Werner Heisenberg ing that prospect, I offer you the counsel of author received his doctorate in physics and mathematics Katharine Butler Hathaway. “To me, money is alive,” from a German university—even though he got a grade she wrote. “It is almost human. If you treat it with real of C on his final exams. Nine years later, he was awardsympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a ed the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his pioneergood servant and work hard for you, and stay with you ing work on quantum mechanics. What happened in and take care of you.” I hope you’ll consider cultivating between? One key development: He was mentored by that approach, dear Gemini: expressing benevolence physicists Niels Bohr and Max Born, both of whom also and love toward money, and pledging to be benevolent garnered Nobel Prizes. Another factor in his success and loving as you use the money you acquire. was his association with other brilliant colleagues working in his field. I hope this story inspires you CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the Sagittarians to be on the lookout for catalytic teachers lawyer from the infant?” Author Diane Ackerman asks and colleagues who can expedite your evolution. The her readers that question, and now I pose the same planetary omens are favorable for such an eventuality. inquiry to you—just in time for your Season of CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You Capricorns Transformation. “We are all shape-shifters and magiaren’t renowned for causing controversy. For the cal reinventors,” Ackerman says. I will add that you most part you’re skillful at managing your reputation Cancerians now have the potential to be exceptional and keeping it orderly. But there may soon be a shape-shifters and magical reinventors. What new departure from this norm. A bit of a hubbub could amazements might you incorporate into your life? What dazzling twists and twinkles would you like to add arise in regards to the impressions you’re making and the effects you’re generating. I’m reminded of to your character? What will the Future You be like? Capricorn author J. D. Salinger, whose book Catcher LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Qabalistic teacher Ann Davies in the Rye was for a time widely taught in American asked, “If you stick your finger in the fire, do you then schools but also widely banned because of its allegcomplain that it is unfair when your finger gets burned? edly controversial elements. These days the book is Do you call the fire bad?” I offer you this caution, Leo, regarded as a beloved classic, and I suspect you will because I want to encourage you not to stick your finweather your commotion with similar panache. gers or toes or any other parts of you into the fire during AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Novelist Tom Robbins the coming weeks. And I’m happy to inform you that there are better approaches to finding out what’s impor- articulated a vision of what it means to be bold and brave. He said, “Real courage is risking something that tant to learn about the fire. The preferred way is to might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer watch the fire keenly and patiently from a modest dischange and stretch consciousness.” I’m hoping you tance. If you do so long enough, you’ll get all you need. will make that formula your keynote in the coming VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In accordance with weeks. The time is right for you to summon extra upcoming astrological portents, I urge you to engage amounts of fortitude, determination, and audacity. in a vigorous redefinition of the term “miracle.” That What new possibilities are you ready to flesh out in will open you up to the full range of miraculous pheways that might prod you to revise your beliefs and nomena that are potentially available in the coming welcome transformation and expand your awareness? weeks. For inspiration, read this passage by Faith Baldwin: “Miracles are everyday things. Not only sud- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Joan of Arc performed her heroic and magical feats in 1430 and 1431. But she den great fortune wafting in on a new wind. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same. Every time wasn’t canonized as a saint until 1920—almost five censomething hard becomes easier; every time you adjust turies later. It took a while to garner the full appreciation she deserved. I’m sure you won’t have to wait as long to to a situation which, last week, you didn’t know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or be acknowledged for your good deeds and fine cresomeone you love who was ill grows better; every time ations, Pisces. In fact, from what I can tell, there’ll be a significant honor, enhancement, or reward coming your a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but way sometime in the next four months. Start visualizing silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.” what you’d like it to be, and set your intention to claim it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Libras become authoritative enough to wield clout in their own Homework: What’s one thing you could do to sphere of influence, it’s often due to three factors: 1. enhance the well-being of a person or people you the attractive force of their empathy; 2. their abilities don’t know? FreeWillAstrology.com.
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FEMALE EMPOWERMENT GROUP: Join us for a female (self-identified) empowerment group that will meet on Monday evenings from 6:00 pm 7:30 pm, July 6 - August 17 via Zoom through Tierra Nueva Counseling Center. We will be using the book, "Wolfpack" by Abby Wombach as well as art-making directives to explore and inspire the feminine power within us all. Co-facilitated by student therapists Lexi D'Ambrosio and Alissa Petrosoniak. Call 505-471-8575 to register. STRESS RELIEF FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES: If you are experiencing heightened stress or anxiety, meet with us on Zoom to learn simple mindfulness and relaxation techniques, participate in supportive conversation and listening, and explore emotions with artmaking. Facilitated by two Southwestern counseling students via Zoom through Tierra Nueva Counseling Center. Group will meet every Thursday evening, 6:00-7:30 pm, July 9-August 27. Call 505-471-8575 to register. Size of group is limited. TIERRA NUEVA COUNSELING CENTER: We have openings for new clients to work with our student therapists (sliding scale fee) or licensed therapists (insurance or flat fee) via telehealth, Zoom, or phone. We can also see a limited number of clients in person following all CDC and state guidelines for health and cleanliness. Please call 505-471-8575 to complete a request for services or for more information. We accept Medicaid, Presbyterian, BCBS, and Medicare. GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP via Zoom - for those experiencing grief in their lives age 18 and over. Offered by Tierra Nueva Counseling Center and Golden Willow with sponsorship by Rivera Family Funeral Home. Restarting on July 4, occurring every Saturday 10:00 -11:30 am. Facilitated by student therapists from Southwestern College. Go to https://goldenwillowretreat.com/ for Zoom link to meeting.
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