Feminist Border Arts Film Festival

10/17/2025

Get ready for the Las Cruces Zombie Walk 2025. Grab the official T-shirt featuring my winning design, produced by Desert Styles, and join the undead on Main Street.

October 25, 2025�6:00 PM to 10:00 PM�100 N. Main Street, Las Cruces, NM 88001

Entrance is free, with live music by Caliente Band. Come walk, dance, and celebrate one of Las Cruces’ favorite community traditions.



Zombie Walk Las Cruces

08/31/2025

Ghost Log: Liner Notes from the In-Between is a haunted novella and journal composed of polyphonic lyrical fragments. Each transmission comes through like signal bleed, filled with witches, cryptids, and memory across frequencies. Together they form a chorus of the in-between.

The paperback offers a hybrid novella and journal for your own transmissions. The ebook holds the full haunted novella with extra fragments.

Ghost Log has entered the charts, now ranked in the Top 100 of Epistolary Fiction and the Top 200 of Mashup Fiction.
Get your copy today.



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08/20/2025

My new book Ghost Log: Liner Notes from the In-Between is now available. The paperback is a haunted novella and journal you can hold, mark, and keep as an object. The eBook carries extra transmissions that are not in print.

Ghost Log is surely influenced by and dedicated to my mother, whose presence, care, and creativity continue to shape me.

This book also launches FBA Studio, the next stage of Feminist Border Arts that I have built over the last decade. This marks the beginning of FBA Studio as an imprint, carrying forward the legacy of Feminist Border Arts into publishing, with projects that cross writing, art, film, and theory.

If you buy a copy or share it with your networks, it would mean so much. Your support helps me and the pets stay afloat right now as I work to secure a car and try to navigate the challenges of divorce without legal representation.

A ghostly presence from the riot grrrl era speaks through a found shoebox of mixtapes, channeling premonitions and feelings that refuse to fade. is a haunted journal for what haunts you and what you haunt in return. Each page carries a strange transmission and leaves space to record what freq...

06/13/2025

Feminist Border Arts is where creative practice meets critical inquiry. From zines and films to workshops and web-based experiments, our offerings invite you to think across boundaries—personal, political, aesthetic.

Explore our growing collection of activities and resources designed to support reflection, expression, and collective change. These are tools for makers, educators, students, and anyone curious about how art can intervene, imagine, and transform.

Visit fba.nmsu.edu to access materials and learn more about our projects in expression, public scholarship, and community collaboration. Explore new ways to engage q***r & feminist ideas through art, media, writing, and design.

Craft something new.

06/07/2025

Animated Flesh: Bodies, Boundaries, Becoming

3:00PM–5:00PM | Study Room

This screening gathers animated and experimental films that move through sensation, intimacy, rupture, and repair. These works examine how bodies and selves respond to touch, trauma, time, and transformation—rendering internal states through shifting forms, tangled gestures, and layered visual language.

University Art Museum | NMSU | 1308 E. University Ave. | Las Cruces, NM

Part of the 10th Annual Feminist Border Arts Festival.

Details at fbarts.org

University Art Museum | NMSU | 1308 E. University Ave. | Las Cruces, NM

Part of the 10th Annual Feminist Border Arts Festival.

06/07/2025

Today: Exquisite Weird: Q***r Worlds and Strange Kin - Awkward attachments and speculative kinship

11:00AM–1:00PM | Fab Lab

This concurrent screening travels through awkward attachments and speculative kinship, places where q***r sensibilities meet social world horror, prophetic visions, poetic healing, and sharp-edged comedy.

06/07/2025

FBA Zine Fest – Saturday, June 7�11:00AM–5:00PM MT | Contemporary Gallery

Join us for the Second Annual FBA Zine Fest—a six-hour celebration of independent publishing, creativity, and connection.

Discover and purchase zines: small, self-published booklets filled with comics, illustration, personal stories, visual experiments, and more. Featuring work by independent artists, writers, and illustrators from near and far.

Admission is free and open to the public. Zines are for purchase. Bring cash—many makers also accept Venmo and PayPal.

Come browse. Take home something unexpected in print.�
Details at fbarts.org

University Art Museum | NMSU | 1308 E. University Ave. | Las Cruces, NM

Part of the 10th Annual Feminist Border Arts Festival.

06/07/2025

Tonight at 6PM MT | Nicole J. Georges – In Person Artist Talk & Reading

Join us for a live presentation by writer, illustrator, podcaster, and educator Nicole J. Georges, whose acclaimed works like Calling Dr. Laura and Fetch blend memoir, q***r kinship, and DIY ethics into deeply personal visual storytelling.

Georges will share her journey from teen zinester to award-winning graphic memoirist, offering insight into zine-making, podcasting, teaching, and the radical potential of drawing life into visibility.

5:00PM | Community Reception�6:00–8:00PM | Bleachers | University Art Museum

Part of the 10th Annual Feminist Border Arts Festival.

Watch on Zoom: https://nmsu.zoom.us/j/81164633451�
More info at fbarts.org

06/07/2025

Today at 4PM | Cassils Screening + Artist Interview

Join us for a powerful film by internationally acclaimed performance artist Cassils.

4:00–5:00PM | Bleachers
Movement II (Half Life) situates Trans* dancers in the stark terrain of White Sands National Park. Through striking movement and layered histories, the film asks what bodies are remembered, and which are erased.
Followed by a recorded conversation with the artist.

5:00PM | Community Reception
6:00PM | Nicole J. Georges: Artist Talk + Reading

Part of the 10th Annual Feminist Border Arts Festival
University Art Museum | Full schedule at fbarts.org

06/07/2025

Saturday, June 7 Workshop: Self Help Comics

Join us Saturday, June 7 from 1:00–2:00PM in the Study Room for a special OutSmART Workshop with graphic memoirist Nicole J. Georges and illustrator Stef Choi.

Self Help Comics is an all-ages, no-experience-needed workshop where comics become a tool for grounding, reflection, and self care. Participants will be guided through creating their own mindful comics and offered take-home practices to continue beyond the session.

No drawing skills required—just bring your big feelings and curiosity.

Part of the 10th Annual Feminist Border Arts Festival.
More info at fbarts.org