NMW.O News
NMW.O Invests in Adolescent Girls of Color
NewMexicoWomen.Org recently made $100,000 in grants to organizations and initiatives serving adolescent girls of color through our 2019-2020 Adolescent Girls of Color Grant Cycle! Data indicates that adolescent girls of color face significant systemic barriers to...
NewMexicoWomen.Org at the Healthy Masculinities Retreat
In NMW.O’s 2017 report, The Heart of Gender Justice in New Mexico, community partners noted that behaviors stemming from toxic masculinity have harmful consequences for women, as well as men. Given the role men and boys play in upholding and reproducing patriarchy, in...
The Pueblo of San Felipe WIC Team Hosts their Annual World Breastfeeding Day Event
The Pueblo of San Felipe Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) held their Annual World Breastfeeding Day Event in August at the San Felipe Pueblo Black Mesa Casino Showroom. This year’s theme was, “Empowering Parents, Enable Breastfeeding”, and...
Update from the Antiracist Youth Leadership Institute
By Kiran Katira, Vanessa Apodaca and the AYLI Team The Antiracist Youth Leadership Institute (AYLI) is a collaboration of community based organizations who collectively nurture anti-racist organizing skills of young people, while fostering wellness, networking, and...
Imagining Gender Justice and Healing in New Mexico
Recently, in a local coffee shop, I noticed that a young male barista had a tattoo on his forehead that read No Future. I began to wonder, what it means, in this political and cultural moment, to imagine a future? Has the future already been colonized? What’s more,...
NewMexicoWomen.Org is pleased to announce our Adolescent Girls of Color Open Grant Cycle for 2019-2020!
NewMexicoWomen.Org is excited to announce that from 2019 - 2021, our gender justice and healing work will include intentional support for organizations and programs specifically serving adolescent girls of color. We invite community partners from around the state to...