First coined in a 1939 issue of Arizona Highways, “The Five C’s”, defined by copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, a...
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When I moved back home to Phoenix after I graduated from college, I felt disconnected from a queer community. Ha...
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It started in Brazil, as I watched my sister dance salsa. There were no traces of Portuguese; just pure eye-contact, bod...
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There is a deep connection I feel to the earth. I come from the earth. The earth embraces me when I die. Once part of th...
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Elevation is power. The neighborhood of Sunnyslope provides one of the best examples of wealth and power dynamics with...
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“God, grant me the serenity – to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisd...
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In the spring of 2017 I went on a camping trip to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) acreage nestled in between the tow...
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My paternal great-grandparents, who were legal U.S. residents, emigrated back to their native México during the Great D...
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Shōjo manga (girls’ comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls&...
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The following images are the result of a photographic collaboration between my three year old son and myself. Miles sele...
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