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“Do not say they are in a better place, please
don’t say everything happens for a reason,”
Nunez-Mchiri said. “Say instead, ‘I am here, let
me know if and when you need me, let me know
if you need a meal or someone to walk with you,
to watch your babies so you can sleep today ...
you’re not alone.”’
Pamela Johnson Angeles hosted “Dance
Movement & Sensory Healing" demonstrat-
ing the properties of healing through the
power of motion and expression. Students sat
on tapestries and held hands to find solace in
connectivity.
“The events of Aug. 3 were a big shock to me;
it’s been a lot and I think this has allowed me to
view things positively and productively,” UTEP
student Derek Hernandez said. “It’s a nice ex-
perience to be able to share your feelings with
other people so you can work through those
feelings. It’s been healing.”
Hernandez works at Horizon High School,
the same high school that Javier Amir Rodri-
guez, 15, one of the shooting victims, attended.
Hernandez said the event has prepared him and
eased his fears about not knowing how to “func-
tion and respond.”
“I’m healing, I’m learning, I’m preparing,”
Hernandez said.
Nunez-Mchiri said this two-day workshop is
the beginning of the community’s healing pro-
cess, as it will serve as an open invitation—a call
to action—so that we may remain vigilant and
restore safety in El Paso.
Sasha Minjarez may be reached at prospector@utep.edu
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The director of UTEP’s Women’s and Gender ,
Studies program organized the “Trauma, Resil- I
ience & Resistance,”Aug. 27-28 in which people I
came together to learn about working through
trauma and discuss the ways that they can help
make a change in their community at the Blum-
berg Auditorium in UTEP’s library.
Following the early August mass shooting,
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in which 22 people died and many more were
injured, UTEP students began pouring into the
office of Guillermina Gina Nunez-Mchiri to ask
about the university’s resources for coping with
the tragedy.
During the summer, Nunez-Mchiri taught a
class on death, dying and bereavement at UTEP.
“I’ve introduced readings from other cultures
on how people from other parts of the world
cope with grief and here we are, experiencing
this in our city,” Nunez-Mchiri said. “I was re-
ally stunned by that overlap, that connection I
had as a professor.”
Nunez-Mchiri felt a sense of responsibility for
her students and community and began con-
tacting her colleagues and peers to think of a
way to help students process their feelings in a Priscilla Gomez / The Prospector
sate and elective environment. Jeffrey Shepherd from UTEP’s Department of History hosts the talk on “A History of Racial Violence and White Supremacist Movements.”
From educators to organizations, Nunez-
Mchiri received an overwhelming response as "I was asked why I was driving alone (by the “Te acompano en tu dolor,” she said. “I’m with
many began offering to help. soldiers),” Damaris said. She added that the sol- you in your pain.”
The series was composed of individuals with diers followed by saying, “Do you know what Nunez-Mchiri also added how to talk to
varying degrees of expertise educating, support- happens to women who are alone? They disap- people who have been affected by the tragic
ing and encouraging open discourse. pear.’ The way he said it was very threatening.” incident.
Multiple people held a workshop in which at- Gabriela Castaneda of the Border Network
tendees were asked to reflect and recognize the for Human Rights presented “A Positive Vision
ways that white supremacy had affected their of the Border: The New Ellis Island” and talked
everyday fives called “Engaging Against White about the organization’s objectives.
Supremacy in Classrooms and Communities: “The mission of the organization is to educate,
Having Critical Conversations. organize and invite people to participate so that
The workshop focused on encouraging the they can make changes in their community to
community to engage in crucial conversations where every single person is equal in dignity
about their experiences with discrimination and right,” Castaneda said.
based on by ethnicity, gender, religion and Nunez-Mchiri presented “Death and Bereave-
identity. ment on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” and dis-
UTEP student Damaris, who decided not to cussed coping mechanisms as well as the impor-
share her last name, gave an account of her ex- tance of being there for each other as the city
perience with gender discrimination after being grieves,
stopped by soldiers while driving in Mexico.
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