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reclaiming kant
What happens when your Political Philosophy reading is Immanuel Kant the same week as the Vagina Monologues?
Sure, it's hard to concentrate, to find time to decipher his metaphysical morals and really sink deep into his text.
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get the u-haul
Hey all! I'm temporarily moving!
I started up this little blog for my term abroad. I do realize that it's totally cliche to start a blog when you go abroad, and I'll try to make it as un-self-absorbed as possible, and if I start sounding like an asshat American college student please comment and say so and bring down all my naivete, BUT I want to ( Read more... ) -
scary
I think I was at this club when I went to Tel Aviv. -
life, guarded.
So, this summer, I've spent a fair chunk of time lifeguarding. This job is not revolutionary. It is not starting a revolution. Nor is it particularly rewarding. Yet, it does have its moments of... uniqueness.
A Short List of Things That Happen While Lifeguarding That I Doubt Would Happen Anywhere Else1. Imagining people in their underwear ( Read more... ) -
genderfuck in the kiddie pool
The other day, I was lifeguarding--as I am prone to do given a bad economy, a fickle summer schedule and a need for some meager income--and watched as the mothers in the kiddie pool area stared at a little, half-naked toddler doning a swim diaper and nothing else. Was this little bediapered child a boy? A girl? No one could tell. Ambiguous hair. ( Read more... ) -
a hairstory lesson
A wise woman--India.Arie, to be exact--once said that "I am not my hair." But after a week home, I'm not so sure ( Read more... ) -
...maybe next time I'll just go running
Dear Minnesota ( Read more... ) -
well, this is... awkward...
From the New York Times' Arts Section today:
The “Commencement” characters are savvy about, among other things, feminism and publishing. “When a woman writes a book that has anything to do with feelings or relationships, it’s either called chick lit or women’s fiction, right?” one of them asks. “But look at Updike, or Irving. Imagine if they’d been ( Read more... )
