Something I’m very, very sensitive about is the way feminists often talk about women in fundamentalist religions. You can’t understand a culture unless you have been inside it yet fundamentalist cultures are often unilaterally condemned by people who have no idea how they work.
I am an exile here, grew up in a different culture, with [...]
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Exile
Posted in Uncategorized on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shministim
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is what activism looks like
Rape Follows Me
Posted in Uncategorized on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rape follows me, the threat of rape is a deep bass refrain in my life, I do not fear mugging or theft or homelessness or beating the way I fear rape, every room I move through, every door I open conceals the possibility of rape, before we got the big dog I used to lie [...]
Transgender Day of Rememberance
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was technicaly yesterday and nobody reads here but i still think its important to mark it
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Oasis: dont look back in anger
Posted in music, ruminations on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i recently went to an oasis gig and it was an odd experience. I’ve not really been following oasis for the last ten years but when they hit the scene in 1994 they were really important to me.
This gig musical was good, but the audience was made up of drunk loud thirty year old men [...]
