Archive for 2008
Pain
Sugarbutch asks “what’s in your box of darkness,” referring to this poem. I was reminded of this passage from “Musing on Pain, Love, and Others” by Laura-Zoe Humphreys in Bisexual Women in the 21st Century. Storyteller: Scrape of metal and a rustle as the white curtains close me in with them. One takes my hand […]
What I’ve noticed
Beautiful liquid sculptures by Sachiko Kodama at Le territoire des sens. China sets up areas for protests, then says no one meets their requirements to have a protest. When I lived in China, I found that no one liked to tell me “no.” If they didn’t want something to happen they just made some sort […]
Minimum wage jobs
A while ago, my friend Marie recommended I read Iain Levison’s A Working Stiff’s Manifesto. I finally got around to it this summer. It’s fantastically funny and unfortunately true. I get the newspaper and dig through the classifieds. It’s the same old crap. “CAREER OPPORTUNITY!!!” screams an ad for a $6.25 an hour warehouse clerk. […]
Uh oh
I might have committed to too much this semester. Classes Plant Morphology Genetics Ecology Discrete Math Calculus based Intro Statistics Clubs Botany Club, president SEEDS, web coordinator, field trip project co-director, grant writer Tri-Beta, liaison with Botany Club Associated Students for Women’s Issues Work Project for Undergraduate IGERT award Project for Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental […]
Some days…
My feet, my bicycle, and the buses are usually all I need. I don’t mind not having a car. But the buses don’t stop near the grocery stores, and today there are more groceries on my list than I think I can carry home.
What she said
From Helen Boyd‘s She’s Not the Man I Married. The overwhelming pressure to conform to masculine and feminine ideals – or die trying – is constant. The obligation to conform is also somewhat invisible and harder to put your finger on. It comes out in …. the funny looks I get pushing an elevator button […]
A family tragicomic
I read Fun Home yesterday. You should read it too.