The first in a series of reflections on the incredible Dialogue 2010, curated by Rose Deniz and on the topic of hybrid identities and location.
The first in a series of reflections on the incredible Dialogue 2010, curated by Rose Deniz and on the topic of hybrid identities and location.
In 1973 Erica Jong wrote the feminist anthem, Fear Of Flying. The heroine, Isadora, though terrified of flying, boards a plane and her subsequent journey leads to a spiritual and sexual awakening that was the one of the first of its kind in print. Jong’s thesis is that the fear of flying is the fear [...]
My first ever guest blog has gone live at expat+HAREM, a neo-cultural hub for expats and voyagers.
http://www.expatharem.com/2010/02/25/the-inside-outsider/
My impassioned review of Quentin Tarantino’s magnificent “Inglourious Basterds”.
Dear Kiri,
Even though I’m not a Breeder your blog about contemplating life while pregnant spoke to me on a lot of levels.
I thought about my friend Wendy who was murdered, and how horrible it was for her mother to lose her daughter so suddenly and brutally.
I thought about my mother, who could have just as [...]
A found poem made up of song lyrics for this week’s www.redroom.com blog competition. My blog from last week, “The Sneeze”, was noted on their website as an honourable mention. Yeah!
A short zombie story inspired by Franz Kafka, my Prague homeboy, and written for the www.RedRoom.com weekly blog competition.
My reflections on Miep Gies’ death as well as Wendy Soltero’s would-be 32st birthday.
The two-bedroom apartment is sparkling clean, so clean that Mr. Smith can eat food off the floor if it drops. He often drops food; he gets excited and his hands shake. Food falls, he picks it up and places it in his mouth. After, he cleans obsessively, frantically, scrubbing the walls, scouring the kitchen, bleach [...]
I took this snap while taking a bath today, and then edited it with Picnik.
Every time I take a soak looking at my feet reminds me of Frida Kahlo’s painting What the Water Gave Me, and more so these days now that my big toe is sort of scarred like hers. I couldn’t make mine [...]
Yet another example of the misogyny in the world in which we all live. A man can abuse women and still maintain a career in the public sphere. Disgusting.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Dear Dr. Hyman,
Once again you have written an absolutely brilliant expose on something most people take for granted as a necessity in their dietary lives, such as wheat and wheat-based products. It’s a testament to our grab-and-go world that values convenience instead of healthiness that this hidden Celiac Disease epidemic has gotten to this point. [...]
Many of the things that I did in the Naughts Decade. I probably left out a bunch, but anyway.
“True Blood” in haiku.
Confronting Cholera: My Zimbabwe Diary
Dear Emile,
This is a beautifully written piece about your experience in Zimbabwe. I love that you’ve gotten involved with Oxfam, an organisation in which Chris McCandless believed so much; he would have been so happy that he inspired you to get involved. But I also appreciate your candor describing not only the Zimbabwe that you [...]
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