My impassioned review of Quentin Tarantino’s magnificent “Inglourious Basterds”.
My impassioned review of Quentin Tarantino’s magnificent “Inglourious Basterds”.
My reflections on Miep Gies’ death as well as Wendy Soltero’s would-be 32st birthday.
Many of the things that I did in the Naughts Decade. I probably left out a bunch, but anyway.
Another lovely and relevant post, thank you Ed & Deb!
Normal stress is compounded for me by also dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder and I have to be very aware of which kind of stress may be affecting me at any given point. I find that drinking too much alcohol or eating things I’m sensitive to [...]
Thank you, Ms. York, for this refreshing and down-to-earth look at the reality of Roman Polanski’s arrest. I’m so disgusted by all the Polanski apologists, Applebaum being only one of many, and I wonder if there will be campaigns in the near future to boycott those who support his release.
In college gender studies courses we [...]
I am stunned beyond belief at all the support being offered Roman Polanski, convicted child raper and jail dodger, after his long overdue arrest in Zurich last week. What kind of world do we live in that just because a person is a celebrity and a holocaust survivor he is somehow seen as being exempt [...]
Here in Europe we have this amazing cream called Bepanthen that is phenomenal for healing wounds without any resulting scarring. Doesn’t matter how you got the wound, scrape, burn, but if you use Bepanthen on it you absolutely will not scar. I got to thinking that maybe forgiveness is like that cream. If you don’t [...]
Thank you, Kiri, for this provocative post and the reminder that childhood lessons are some of the most important.
I certainly know that rumbly churny tummy feeling that is a sure sign something is amiss. For me, my natural intuition was scrambled by trauma and afterwards I would get that “off” feeling all the time. Crippling [...]
Eight years ago two planes flew into New York’s World Trade Centers killing thousands. I remember my then-boyfriend waking me up to tell me what had happened. It was 8am in California and so I laughed at the news, thinking that someone had pulled a Fight Club and destroyed two empty buildings. When he reminded [...]
My introduction to Ethiopia and its cuisine was in a Rastafarianism, Reggae, and the African Diaspora course I took in university. What struck me the most was learning that Ethiopia had never been colonized, and is one of the few African nations never to have been. Not for lack of trying, mind you. The Italians [...]
I am pretty sure I’ve discovered a new fairy who has been in my life for some time now. I’m calling her The Trauma Fairy, and my belief is she goes into our minds while we sleep and erases things that are just too awful to remember. One of the more dramatic times she visited [...]
Although it’s been weeks since I’ve seen it, I’m still thinking about the movie The Brave One. Jodie Foster repeats throughout the film that after the horrific trauma she went through, it was like a new person emerged in her. Someone who was capable of doing things that she never would have dreamed of doing [...]
Last weekend, Steve and I went to see the new Jodie Foster film The Brave One. I’ve been feeling so strangely about my life, Wendy’s death, dealing with violence, that I had mixed feelings about a movie where a woman’s response to trauma is to pick up a gun and begin killing baddies. The mixed [...]
Seven years ago on October 28 in Hollywood my dear friend Wendy was murdered and died in my arms. She was killed by a 19-year-old gang member who, after my testimony, is serving a life sentence in prison. I can feel it in my spirit and my bones that The Day is approaching, albeit seven [...]
The Summer of Missed Opportunities
In spite of its horrifying nature, I must thank you for this post, Ms. Sax. It is a testament to the woman-unfriendly world we live in that these disgusting crimes against humanity take place right under the authorities’ noses. It appears that women’s health and safety quite simply is not a general concern for men, [...]
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