saying goodbye on a good note…
It’s been my pleasure guest blogging here for the past two weeks. (I think I’ve overstepped by one day–Labor Day screwed me up.) I tried to touch on different topics of interest to me and hopefully of interest to some of the readers here at Feminste and I’ve been excited when people took the time [...]
...read moreHow to Create a Feminist Burlesque Scene
I’ve been privileged enough to spend a good portion of the last two summers involved in creating a queer neo-burlesque scene in Mexico City with an amazing group of talented individuals. It all started two years ago when a group of new chilango friends found out I did burlesque and arranged for me to perform [...]
...read moreWomen’s Health: More Than Our Uteruses, Breastmilk, or Offspring
An interesting conversation is brewing among New York Times readers about a recent post in the paper’s “Well” blog about prescription drug sharing among women. Blogger Tara Parker-Pope wrote, “…drug-sharing rates were highest among younger women ages 18 to 44, raising special concerns about side effects and health risks of unchecked prescription drug use among [...]
...read moreXenophobia Rears its Ugly Head in All Sorts of Places
Golf is not something that is usually on my radar screen (unless I’m getting worked up about how golf courses buy water rights to maintain their unsustainable lushness in draught-affected areas or about how the Bush administration claims to have increased the amount of wetlands in the U.S. by counting golf courses as wetlands), but [...]
...read moreToday We Mourn the Passing of Del Martin
This is some sad news. Call me sappy (and putting aside my complicated feelings about marriage), but it makes me happy that she got to marry her long term partner before she passed. Del Martin is best known for co-founding the Daughters of Bilitis, which was the first national lesbian organization in the United States, [...]
...read moreWhy I Hate Teach for America
Like many English majors who have reached their senior year of college and are unsure of what kind of job they can get with that specialized B.A. in interwar period lesbian literature, five years ago I applied to both Teach for America (TFA) and the New York City Teaching Fellows (NYCTF). I was promptly rejected [...]
...read moreThe Ethics of Tourism: An Informal Poll
Introductions aside, I want to start with an informal poll. Because I run what is essentially a blog for English-speaking queer and/or women travelers (and the occasional ex-pat) in Mexico, I want to ask people what they think about the politics of travel and tourism, specifically travel from the “first world” to non-”first world” countries. [...]
...read moreGreetings from Mexico City/Brooklyn!
Hey, everybody. I’ll be guest blogging here for the next two weeks. Coincidentally, the timing of this guest blogging stint will expose the somewhat fractured (maybe “varied” is a better word) focuses in my life right now, which currently span a time-zone, language barriers, and a wide array of interests. For the next week I’ll [...]
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