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perspective
Last week, I wrote: Nothing in life really quite makes sense to me. We're curators -- constantly accepting and rejecting narratives pressed onto our whole beings and (re)presenting and offering an(other) shard of a mirror. What a beautiful and powerful gift.there is so much beauty in this world and part of it is the ugly, violent, painful ( Read more... ) -
colonization, intersectionality, gender violence
I want to learn about:
http://feministcurrent.com/8898/give-voice-for-the-first-time-in-english-to-the-chinese-comfort-women/
Giving voice, for the first time in English, to the Chinese ‘comfort women’
work, dressI don't remember what it was.
On Monday, I took a lovely Skills-Exchange session at The Creative Commons. The series is organized by Sarah Eby (Willow Springs) and this writing workshop was lead by Eleanor Albanese (http://www.eleanora.ca/).
What I enjoyed about the exercise was the appreciation for time in the process of writing and in taking the opportunity to listen to ( Read more... )candle lighting
my laptop went kaputz today and wouldnt boot up.
read a poem this evening and was part of a memorial service by hospice northwest ( Read more... )Posing and pushing: Pronouns and privilege | Open letter
Posing and pushing: Pronouns and privilege | Open letter to the author of “Sexual rights, public norms”
November 8, 2013 at 1:42pm
When “nature” calls, one must go. What I mean is, I sense the urge to pee, my bladder fills up and I go to a washroom and it’s a natural bodily function that I don’t have to think about because I’m a healthy, able-bodied ( Read more... )Calling bullshit on the local newspaper is fun and tiring
Mr. Colin Bruce,
Thank you for taking time from your schedule to meet with Jake Hume, Sarah Dibiagio, Ian Kaufman and me on the October 4, 2013. It was a second opportunity to understand each other’s views and to follow-up on our petition action-items and re-iterate them in regards to the editorial “Sexual rights, public norms” published on Sunday, ( Read more... )ally
what a week ( Read more... )on sex workers
I have to organize something ( Read more... )why i suck at online dating
a friend encouraged me to sign up a few times. i did so a few times on that plenty of fish website which is so limiting because i am either gay or i am straight. i am likely more gay than straight. okcupid is much more visually appealing layout and i can be bisexual (though i don't like that term because it is still limiting and inaccurate ( Read more... )wabi sabi
Wabi means simplicity, quietude, harmony, peace, and poverty as in being stripped down to the basics.
Sabi means things that come with age or time, and taking pleasure in that which is old or well used; “the bloom of time” as someone once said ( Read more... )