February 2012
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Fuck The Dude Up →
This McSweeney’s column is my favorite piece of writing right now. I feel like it takes my entire last month’s thinking on the topics of women, protection, community and self-defense, and beautifully writes out the exact conclusion I personally came to as well. I haven’t written anything publicly on this topic, despite thinking about it so much recently, mostly just because there...
January 2012
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Yes to this today
Responsibility - by Grace Paley
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It is the responsibility of society to let the poet be a poet It is the responsibility of the poet to be a woman It is the responsibility of the poet to stand on street corners giving out poems and beautifully written leaflets also leaflets you can hardly bear to look at because of the screaming rhetoric It is the responsibility of the poet to be lazy to hang...
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A Thing I'd Like
Lately I’ve been thinking about how I want to force everyone I love to make me a mix-tape (sic/ mp3 playlist) of their all time favorite songs. So that I can have on handy supply a collection of albums for when I miss a particular person or another, or want to be inspired by the energy and vibe of one or another loved one.
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I’ve yet to act on that. But, just now, while pausing in...
December 2011
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OWS, Hindu goddesses, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala... →
Recently I was asked to give a lecture on my career and the role feminism has played in it. Somehow that turned into a talk entitled “Feminism and the Powers of Destruction and Creation” and I worked in shout outs to several of my favorite things/people and built it all around a story of Hindu goddesses. After enough insistence from those who were not in the room, I wrote this...
November 2011
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WatchNew technologies allowed Angela Gheorghiu to duet with a prior recording of Maria Callas, singing Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen. Amazing.
October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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June 2011
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My latest HuffPo piece, in which I consider the... →
Read here!
May 2011
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April 2011
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How To Steal Like An Artist (And 9 Other Things... →
This is the greatest thing I’ve come across in some time. And I came across it on Roseanne Cash’s Twitter, which obviously means it’s greater than the sum of its parts alone!
February 2011
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December 2010
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Resolution # 1,003
I will love who loves me I will love as much as I am loved I will hate who hates me I will feel nothing for everyone oblivious to me I will stay indifferent to indifference I will live hostile to hostility I will make myself a passionate and eager lover In response to passionate and eager love I will be nobody’s fool
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By the late great June Jordan, and always still always relevant
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November 2010
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Playlist, Zipped →
petersheik:
Now zipped, for your convenience.
Obviously my disclaimer here is PAY ARTISTS for their music and if you download someone’s music you should, like, go find them and give them flowers on the street or food or at least some coins commensurate your ability to pay, something something lesbian collective real talk. Or you know: you hear something you like and then go buy the album, right?...
That whole Palin = Riot Grrrl article? Well.... →
So after taking a brief hiatus from writing out blog rants in response to reading or seeing something that makes me go WTF, the holiday weekend inspired a new one! Did you all catch the Elizabeth Wurtzel post in The Atlantic, where she posits that Sarah Palin is a Riot Grrrl?!
Yeah, blah blah, Sarah Palin is definitely not a feminist, and I caught all of those internet responses. But, for me,...
October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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The Straightforward Mermaid
The straightforward mermaid starts every sentence with “Look … ” This comes from being raised in a sea full of hooks. She wants to get points 1, 2, and 3 across, doesn’t want to disappear like a river into the ocean. When she’s feeling despairing, she goes to eddies at the mouth of the river and tries to comb the water apart with her fingers. The straightforward mermaid has already said to...
June 2010
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May 2010
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Malawi gay couple pardoned and to be released!!! →
Speaking of community, and good news!
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What Joyce Has To Say About That - Part I
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April 2010
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What Happens When You Give A Homeless Person A...
So the Mister Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, has decided to take one last swing at the homeless before leaving office. As a person who once was homeless on the streets of San Francisco, I have a little something or other to say about that.
Here’s is a snippet of my most recent HuffPo piece:
I was once one of those homeless people in San Francisco. Kicked out of my shelter in the...
WatchWow. This video made my morning. Earl Greyhound’s first single, Shotgun, off of their new album, Suspicious Package. I love this band. I love the people in this band. I love this video. Watch!
WatchThis has been sitting in my inbox for days, but I am SO glad I opened it before deleting. A puppet show explaining financial regulatory reform to children. Just amazing.
March 2010
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