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Responding to Climate Change

July 11, 2024
Two people working in a barren field under a clear sky. One person is digging with a shovel, while the other observes.

7.12.24 – Like many others, Theresa Pasqual, director of the Tribal Historic Preservation Office at the Pueblo of Acoma, knows that long before human-caused climate change started warming and drying the Southwest, survival in this arid landscape required care and connection. In this special segment of Our Land, Pasqual also talks about the challenges tribes…

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Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands

January 13, 2023
The cover of the book "Border Bodies" on top of a blue background.

01.13.2023 – New Mexico in Focus correspondent Russell Contreras speaks with UNM Professor and Author Bernadine Hernandez about her book, ‘Border Bodies.’ The book discusses how racialized sexuality, sexual capital and violence in the 19th century borderlands contributed to the southwest as we know and understand it today. Correspondent: Russell Contreras Guest: Dr. Bernadine Hernández,…

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