Arizona Illustrated

The Outlaw Project was founded to mitigate the dire circumstances that frequently affect transgendered people of color. To ensure the rights and health of BIPOC Trans Women and sex workers, they are building transitional housing which helps provide emergency housing, economic justice, self-sufficiency; harm reduction, and mitigates the impact of oppression. Deb Montoya is a Tucson-based artist. Deb’s great aunts lived through the great depression and taught Deb how to repurpose every little bit. She learned how to make sculptures out of wire when she was little. Her uncle Jack who worked at the telephone company, was providing used telephone wires for Deb and her siblings. The kids used to make toys out of wire. In the last ten years, Deb went back to her first love: Art. Currently, she goes to estate sales and buys metal pieces destined for the dump. Then she combines them with bells, glass and crystals to create her whimsical windchimes. Deb says: "Each chime has a story and a good sound to it!" Elaine A. Powers is a Tucson-based conservationist and author with a passion for spreading science education through storytelling. Her whimsical rhymes, and the animals she has rescued, have captivated audiences. In this installment of Arizona Illustrated’s poetry series, a collaboration with the UA Poetry Center, former Tucson Poet Laureate William Pitt Root reads White Boots: Ghost of the San Manual Mine. William Pitt Root is the author of eleven books and been published in hundreds of magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s and more. He grew up in Florida and earned degrees from University of Washington and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was Tucson’s Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002. This is a short series where we spend time with mental health professionals to learn more about them. We asked; what inspired them to enter the profession, what’s perhaps unique about their approaches and the communities they serve, and what disparities they see in their field that they feel needs to be addressed. In this segment, we meet Kate Kincaid who specializes in relationship therapy within systemically marginalized communities and has a growing practice in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.