Being a student on a very tight budget, I am particularly fond of restaurants with cards that give you a free meal after a certain…
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My dissertation proposal research continues apace – sometimes stutteringly slowly, other times with a swiftness and surety which reassures me that I’m on the right…
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There’s an odd and disturbing trend I’ve noticed recently in my preferred form of brain candy; e.g.: smart female protagonists within the genre of urban…
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Some years ago a friend asked me why I didn’t like pulp — why, in fact, I pretty much loathed it. It gets stuck in…
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In exchange for a huge honkin’ load of electronics recycling, my household received four free tickets to the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation‘s current…
Continue ReadingBelly dancing & comfort zones
Today has been an extremely fruitful day so far! Not only did I tremendously enjoy my first American Tribal System belly dancing class with a…
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Some time ago I wrote a posting (which I’ve since lost track of) where I mentioned that in restaurants where you’re supposed to get your…
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I have a nasty cold. It is no fun. I intensely dislike feeling like my head has been stuffed full of cotton wool and my…
Continue ReadingWoman in the Shaman’s Body
The apparently overwhelmingly powerful need to control women which some men appear to have is painfully expressed yet again in a form which is recorded…
Continue ReadingExploring power with rather than power over
In the same year as Ely & Meyerson’s amazing article regarding the malleability of masculinity, Euro-American columnist Nicholas D. Kristof and Asian-American lecturer and business…
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