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V.25 No.45 | 11/10/2016
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
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Event Horizon

Miss Major Big Deal

Saturday, Nov 12: Major!

Learn about the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.
V.24 No.45 | 11/05/2015

The Daily Word in Republicans, bad sex, and space death

The Daily Word

Last night's GOP debate is calm and mature... Relatively.

The people at BuzzFeed share with us their lousy sex experience.

Albuquerque honors its veterans- with free stuff!

Yet another “Beauty Through the Decades” video, but this one takes the romantic filter off of the past to show what women were really doing.

A planet far far away causes scientists to rethink the way they see planetary orbit.

Ancient English tree rejects gender binary.

Space is terrifying. Death is around every corner, and these astronauts have faced it head on.

Here's a page thats full of people gushing about Fallout 4. If that interests you.

V.24 No.15 | 04/09/2015

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The Daily Word in taxes, divorce, and human head transplants

The Daily Word

Good morning! It’s April 15, 2015

And it is Tax Day!

The Hugo Awards for science-fiction literature have become yet another cultural battleground as an organization called the “Sad Puppies” attempt to game the system away from rewarding “literary” works and those that portray “minority or victim groups,”

Getting a divorce can give you a heart attack, especially if you’re a woman,

UNM’s student government will be eliminating all gender specific pronouns from their constitution,

A pharmacist at a Georgia Walmart declined to fill a woman’s miscarriage medication because she “couldn’t think of a valid reason why you would need this prescription”

Arkansas police are installing spyware on lawyers’ computers,

And a man with a degenerative disease is “excited” to be first in line for a head transplant.

Have a great day!

V.23 No.25 |

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The Daily Word in security, surveillance, drones and genderless pronouns

The Daily Word

There's a new security measure in the Albuquerque mayor's office: a second door.

New security measures coming to Pat Hurley park in NW Albuquerque.

Charges are being dropped in the case of three UNM football players accused of raping a female student.

VICE covers APD and the "Albuquerque Spring".

Check out this photo gallery of Barstow's many kitschy motels.

Here is a national map of military and civilian drone crashes as well as airports that are or will be hosting drone traffic.

How much are Bob Dylan's lyrics to "Like a Rolling Stone" worth?

Vancouver school board approves the use of genderless pronouns.

Get up to date on the ISIS/Iraq scene with Jon Stewart.

Learn the true meaning of "my two cents" and other business jargon that should be used sparingly.

Watch Japanese folks master the use of the English-speaker's favorite curse word.

Excellent short film set to Tiny Tim's "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight".

V.21 No.47 | 11/22/2012
Jeff Drew jeffdrewpictures.com

Music

Specter of sonic sexism looms

Sexism in the music industry is alive and well. But it’s almost 2013, you might say. We’re more than a half-century removed from the height of ’50s paternalism. Sadly, we’re not quite as distanced from the weaker-sex mentality as we’d like to think. Whether exploring industrial music, producing or music-related subcultures, misogyny still patiently waits to be acknowledged and abolished. We chatted with Burqueña noisemakers and aural curators about their experiences with sexism in our burg. Read all about it in Burqueñas Talk Musical Misogyny.

Jeff Drew jeffdrewpictures.com

Aural Fixation

Burqueñas Talk Musical Misogyny

We talk to Burqueña DJs and musicians about sexism in the music industry and call for an end to bad, old-fashioned misogyny.
V.21 No.39 | 9/27/2012

Arts

Man Up

Don McIver reviews a poet’s ruminations on masculinity.

Book Review

In the Age of Man

Poet ruminates on modern-day masculinity

Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood

A poet tackles modern-day masculinity
V.21 No.28 | 7/12/2012
Erin Adair-Hodges

Mama Crass

What a Way to Make a Livin’

The American workplace is built for 1950s Man, a pomaded machine who didn’t need vacation or time with his kids.
V.21 No.20 | 5/17/2012
Staff Sgt. Yvette McClelland circa 1990 in San Antonio, Texas
Courtesy of Yvette McClelland

News

Military sexual assault numbers are shocking

Last week, I sat down with Yvette McClelland, a veteran who served in the Air Force for a decade. She worked as a telecommunications maintenance specialist. Her time in the military was fraught with sexism, harassment and assault. McClelland was raped three times by fellow service members, she says.

Many years later, she’s still working on handling the fallout. As part of an effort to draw attention to this systemic problem, she’s brought a movie to town. The Invisible War will screen at Guild Cinema today at 4, 6 and 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 12:30 p.m.

The 8 p.m. Friday and 12:30 p.m. Saturday screenings feature guest speakers Ariana and Ben Klay. They are suing the military after Ariana was assaulted while in the Marines.

The numbers are staggering. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta estimates that 19,000 people serving in the military were sexually assaulted last year, though only about 3,000 people reported it.

Though the Department of Defense is attempting to address the issue, McClelland points out what she thinks is the real problem: Sexual assault cases remain entirely within the military. The Stop Act, introduced in November, aims to create an independent body of civilian and military experts to investigate and prosecute those cases. McClelland says she hopes people will encourage their political representatives in Washington to support the bill.

Staff Sgt. Yvette McClelland circa 1990 in San Antonio, Texas
Courtesy of Yvette McClelland

News Feature

The Unspoken Battlefield

Veteran speaks out about military sexual assault

You don't talk about it when you're in the service, says Yvette McClelland. But sometimes you can just see it in someone's face.

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The Daily Word in marriage rights, Romney the bully and breastfeeding

The Daily Word

Justice Department accuses infamous Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio of trampling civil rights in his district.

President Obama announced his support for full marriage equality, but New Mexicans don’t see it happening anytime soon.

There were Christian same-sex unions in the 10th century, says anthropologist.

Kid fell into the zebra exhibit.

Former APD union boss arrested and charged with domestic violence.

With few protections in the state, some people wind up purchasing land from folks who don’t own it.

Mitt Romney was a bully and a cutter of hair he didn’t like.

A man in his undies stabbed his computer with a samurai sword while police were looking for child porn.

Time magazine’s breastfeeding cover.

What would it be like if pterosaurs walked the Earth right now.

Fancy business types are annoyed by the way Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg dresses.

Fundamentalist Phoenix high school forfeits championship baseball game because the other team had a girl on it.

South Korea accuses North Korea of jamming GPS signals for civilian flights.

This dog is ready to play.

Double-face white shark coffee table.

Hack your triggers.

Humpback whales defend baby gray whale from orcas.

V.21 No.11 | 3/15/2012
Women’s Day back in the day

What's Happening

Happy Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day, which coincides with Women’s History Month, observed in the U.S. in March. The theme this year, as declared by the United Nations, is “Empower Rural Women—End Hunger and Poverty.” But regional groups develop their own focal points.

In Albuquerque, there’s the Women & Creativity series, which unfolds over the course of the month. Tonight, Instituto Cervantes is presenting They Count, a documentary about women of African descent living in Brazil. It will screen at the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s Bank of America Theatre at 7 p.m.

The UNM Women’s Resource Center and Women Studies Department were supposed to celebrate their 40th anniversary today, too, but the festivities have been postponed.

International Women’s Day has been celebrated for 101 years, beginning in 1911 after German activist Clara Zetkin called for it at the International Conference of Working Women.

If you know of any other related events today, add them in the comment field below.

V.20 No.49 | 12/8/2011
The first edition of   Our Bodies, Ourselves

News Profile

Body Politics

An interview with one of the activists behind an iconic feminist health guide

Our Bodies, Ourselves celebrates 40 years amid much political debate on women’s health issues like abortion and contraception.
V.20 No.40 |

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The Daily Word in Steve Jobs, Occupy Adbusters and a quadruple rainbow

The Daily Word

Apple's Steve Jobs dies at age 56.

A commencement speech Jobs gave.

The good folks at Westboro plan to protest his funeral.

Occupy Albuquerque protesters still at UNM.

Man says he tried to withdraw his money from Bank of America in St. Louis and was prevented by police.

Snarky writer charges that Occupy Wall Street was started by Adbusters (which, he says, owns the URL).

Guy charged in Sunflower Market's yogurtgate is going to court.

Dr. Barry Ramo on foods that make your skin healthy.

Men as pinups.

Why do we love stories about people with too many cats?

Santa Fe orders cleanup of "Hobo Hill."

This Swede won the Nobel Prize for literature.

Quadruple rainbow all the way.

Palin says she's not running for president.

Judy Jetson is boy crazy.

Speech pathologist eats school lunches for a year.

Cafeterias in France ban ketchup.

Hear all of Björk's new album Biophilia.