On Quitting
Most often when I talk about building a life, I have meant something closer to saying that I cannot imagine—or desire—a life here.
Africa : Queer : Anthropology
...more concerned in the anthropology of the changingAfrican, and in the anthropology of the contact of white and coloured, of European culture and primitive tribal life. A mentor told me...
City of Praise
...leaks fluorescent light and you can hear male and female voices singing worship songs. It is as if their praise powers the building. London is ever changing; that’s what cities...
The Scent(s) of a Woman
...evanescent as a smell have a history and a culture?”) and (2) its current status as “girl stuff.” Comparatively, the study of wine—which shares a focus on smell and descriptive...
One-Dimensional Woman
...“raping” the victim, and it’s worth noting that while that obfuscating phrasing may be more regularly extended to female teachers, it often comes into use when male teachers are accused...
Thoughts on a Word: Fine
...songs about fine women is initially perplexing. Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Clarence Garlow, The Easybeats, Flash Cadillac, Big Boy Myles, Roscoe Dash—all of these artists have recorded a song entitled...
Morpheus Descending
...father's approach to insomnia was likely the exception rather than the rule; most people at the time looked to less complicated remedies. Said Iago to Othello: “Not poppy nor mandragora,...
"Never could I tell him it was him."
... Rufus being Rufus. By atp tyreseus [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Rufus Wainwright’s song, “The Art Teacher,” which I had the great joy of hearing live last...
St. Paul (A Screenplay)
...companions flee, in the midst of the chaos of the alley, among the little bars of the seaside city, with the lights on in the middle of the night, songs,...
My David Bowie
...I can't imagine I would have asked for it. Still, I was deeply disappointed by it at the time. The spoken-word section in Japanese that opens the album put me...
Sunday Reading
...Reeling in the Raj Jacqui Shine: Orchard Beach photos "You were a child once, too." Let's Stop Singing Songs About Women Who Don't Know They're Beautiful Wikipedia list of pastries...
Ramadan Diaries: Where's the Information?
...re-reading John Berryman's The Dream Songs, which I do or think about doing every day, I'm also reading Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche's The Tibetan Yogas of Dream & Sleep: Practices for...
Little Orphan Nellie
...turn up somewhere ripped and stoned and undercover and immerse yourself in a culture or practice, then write viscerally, from the brain and the gut. In fact, women were doing...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...some dark corner of my house, eating potato chips and refreshing my Tumblr feed in the hope that someone will have “liked” my Photoshopped picture of Kanye West in a...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...my RSS feed. And then, I shrugged. Apathy doesn’t seem like the greatest reason to tune out of something that, intellectually and politically speaking, enrages me—or at least should...
Biopolitical Exclusion Starts with a Hug
...money to feed yourself. Hence a return to housing and welfare programs as structural interventions that would assist a hugging program would seem essential first steps—but no, hugging is simply...