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Ain’t I a Woman/Womyn/Wimmin?
Maybe not. While at Brooklyn Pride this year, I was handed a postcard for this year’s NYC Dyke March. In bold, red letters, the postcard proclaims: “Women! Womyn! Wimmin!” and, below, says “This march is for women only. Allies should cheer us from the sidelines.” The postcard left me wondering where I belonged – in…
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My pride cup overfloweth…
Puerto Rican Day Parade by Martin Wong This weekend was a little overwhelming with the pride in my various identities. On Saturday, Brooklyn Pride exploded in all its queer glory. Me, my girlfriend, and Bessie the dog went out and were queer. This basically consisted of walking up and down Prospect Park West, getting about…
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AngryBrownButch in the flesh
This weekend I’m going to be sitting on a panel at the New Fest, the big queer film festival here in NYC. The details: Masculinity In The Lesbian Community 1pm on June 11, 2006 The New Yorker Hotel 481 Eighth Avenue (at 34th St.) Grammercy Park Suite $6 As seen in NewFest 2006 films like…
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jury duty, part deux
First off, a quick note: my letter on gentrification to Time Out New York was published in this week’s edition. And they didn’t edit all that much out, though they did leave out the sentence about poverty and neglect in Bushwick. Ah well, that they published it at all is somewhat surprising! So – my…
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i <3 our judicial system!
I am serving jury duty at State Supreme Court in Brooklyn today. Right now, this consists of eating good Thai food outside of a restaurant in Brooklyn Heights, a neighborhood that I have never ventured into before and never realized was so chi-chi. (took me a little while to find an affordable lunch special.) A…
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“innate charm,” my ass.
A letter I’ve written to Time Out NY in response to a recent article about finding apartments in NYC: The low-income people of color and immigrants who live in “on-the-verge nabes” (“Apartments 2006,” TONY 552) are being pushed out of these “hot” neighborhoods by a wave of gentrification that TONY seems to be endorsing. The…
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behold, another blog
Poplicks recently posted a list of 30 more facts that are difficult to face (guess I missed the first list), which includes the following fact, amongst other horrors and amusements: “According to Harper’s Index, a new blog is created every second.” Well, I’m happy to say that I contributed to that particular statistic today by…
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stirring from slumber
It’s been a while. Life happened, in all sorts of big ways, as it tends to, drawing me away from the blogging. So much so that I didn’t even get to post a get-out-of-blogging free card. Sorry to go MIA with no notice! But I’m returning, slowly. Starting to do some catch-up reading of my…
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is someone going to take away my feminist card?
I forgot to blog on Blog Against Sexism Day. Well, no, let me not front. I didn’t forget, I just didn’t. In part because yesterday was kind of a bad, distracting day for me overall, and I still don’t have internet access at my house (pinche Time Warner…) But also, because I’m never good about…
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babies. and work. (sometimes i hate coming up with post titles.)
Since getting cable TV at home, the cable internet (which we’d had for quite some time already) has been on the fritz. So I have an appointment for a cable fixer person to come fix it today, which means I’m working from home. Except that, since I don’t have internet at home, it means I’m…