Last week, thirty-eight members of my state senate joined the ranks of cowardly, bigoted, ignorant, fearful homophobes all around the country by defeating a measure to approve same-sex marriage.
I want someone to explain it in words I can understand, someone intelligent and articulate to help me make it make sense.
What’s the danger, people? What is [...]
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I’m asking again: How long?
Posted in brain freeze, containing myself, homophobia, prejudice, what now?, tagged brain freeze, containing myself, dumb-ass crap, homophobia, prejudice, what now?, who's in a sour mood today?, WTF?!?! on 8 December 2009 | 4 Comments »
What’d you get done in the last 14 1/3 weeks?
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Obama, choose your own adventure, teaching, what now?, tagged choose your own adventure, NaBloPoMo, Obama, Obama-sistible, politics, teaching, what now? on 17 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Author’s note: I’m cleaning house today and found this post lying around in my “Draft” folder. It’s from April 30th, so it’s the 14 1/3 weeks before April 30th that this post refers to. Not sure why I never hit “Publish” when this is pretty much whole and says what I wanted to say. WordPress tells [...]
Back on the street.
Posted in NaBloPoMo, brain freeze, containing myself, full disclosure?, out and about, sexism, violence, wake up call, what now?, women, working my last nerve, tagged brain freeze, containing myself, full disclosure?, gender, NaBloPoMo, out and about, sexism, violence, wake up call, what now?, women, working my last nerve on 18 August 2009 | 6 Comments »
Last year I wrote about taking a survey on street harassment that I found on Holla Back. H, the woman who conducted the survey asked if she could follow up with additional questions about my survey responses, and I agreed. I got the questions last week and spent some time thinking about them, thinking about my [...]
Uncounting my chickens.
Posted in brain freeze, what now?, writing, tagged brain freeze, sad, what now?, writing on 23 June 2009 | 7 Comments »
faint hope sunken in
folded under disappointment
confidence slinks off
doesn’t bad news come in threes
storm clouds still hang over me
Got home to a kindly-worded form email telling me I didn’t get the fellowship. I don’t think I had a strong chance at getting it, but I wanted it more than I can articulate, and this rejection feels [...]
Heridas de Amor: A Friend in Need
Posted in brain freeze, containing myself, family, love and other complications, mothers and daughters, people I love, poetry, teaching, what now?, tagged brain freeze, containing myself, family, love and other complications, mothers and daughters, people I love, poetry, tanka, teaching, what now? on 17 May 2009 | 10 Comments »
Valerie walked into my class after break Wednesday night with her right hand in a cast (yes: AGAIN¹), wearing the same clothes she’d worn on Tuesday, telling me her mother had kicked her out of the house after beating her badly enough to send her to the hospital for the night. “So yeah,” she said. “I’m [...]
