Humans of New Mexico will highlight individuals in the state and show the diversity of the population. This page is a community wide effort to capture the complex issues that affect our communities and offer a platform to voice everyday practices of resistance to societal pressures. We recognize that New Mexico has diverse cultural traditions; therefore, we are interested in capturing snippets of
communities that have been here for generations as well as new populations contributing to our state. Agency through testimonio practice is at the heart of this project. We will try to incorporate native textual language pertaining to the individual’s story we share to the best of our ability’s to privilege oral and language traditions. We are not professional demographers, photographers, journalists, or have any particular affiliation; but rather, we are concerned community members who are looking to capture the voice of communities who are traditionally silenced. While we recognize a strong activist tradition in the state, our focus lies in hearing our constituents, everyday people, rather then appointed officials or identified titled leaders. At the heart of this project, we recognize that we are inhabitants of Indigenous land and recognizing that the voices and stories captured represent a particular experience that speaks to the settler condition that exists in our state and country. Therefore; it will be the Page’s efforts to center Indigenous experiences at the heart of the project. We recognize that objectivity is in the eye of the beholder; and as such, it is this Page’s efforts to not bring forth any particular agenda in mind but rather engage in conversation through intersectional approaches across communities. Since the Page is intended to be a community and statewide effort, we welcome submissions (photographs along with text) that we will gladly post (as long as it correlates with the Page's mission & vision). We are also interested in meeting with folks who want to share their stories, so feel free to messages us at our email or through the Page. While the Page is intended to be a two-sided conversation, we welcome positive feedback that comes from a site of love as to place diverse communities in conversation with one another and brings new perspectives from our urban, rural and distinct geographical regions in the state of New Mexico. Any offensive material or language that does not come from a place of love will be taken down by the moderators of our Page. The Page will serve as an online archival interactive project in which the focus will be to prioritize textual and audio testimonial components along with photographs of the folks who share their stories. Snippets of the textual transcript of each individual’s story will live in the page and the audio transcript will live in our SoundCloud account. Furthermore, we will share similar formats via our Twitter and Instagram accounts. The reason for choosing social media as the medium of communication is to provide accessible mediums of communication with the audience we hope the project hopes to bring together. Furthermore, we engage our viewers to engage in critical testimonial practice by engaging with textual, audio and visual analysis of the diverse communities whose stories we share.
