Tag Archives: gender

The move: before

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

Friday, December 16, 2011 Twenty minutes. Half the house in boxes, half my body in distress, half my mind in disarray. The movers come tomorrow. Yesterday I wrote the checks and opened the door and walked in to the empty … Continue reading →

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The move: before, during, after (introduction)

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

On a bright, cool day in December I packed up all my things and took the fool’s journey into a new cohabitation. The fool will say “it’s different this time,” but the wise fool knows when it’s actually true. What … Continue reading →

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Emo femme shopping and what it won’t give me

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

A while back, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she wanted to indulge in some “emo femme shopping,” but that she was resisting the impulse. And she summed up the post with a phrase I wish I were … Continue reading →

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Restrepo

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Restrepo is the name of a man, an American man, killed in Afghanistan. His brothers took the valley, killed more men, and named the valley after him. All the men and women, children, goats, and cows who lived and died … Continue reading →

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For Mark – a New Year’s Poem

Posted on February 20, 2011 by

For Mark, a New Year’s Poem Gentle kisses on the roads of the body        you open me               in ways that make me ache stop bossing              and I stop                   for the first time Words get us in trouble,       the bright … Continue reading →

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Sexism doesn’t have a party

Posted on September 16, 2008 by

I just love those girls at Feministing. My initial impression of the blog was that it focused too much on the negative side of the current state of gender politics: all the shit that women still have to put with, … Continue reading →

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More about gender essentialism, and a little bit about love

Posted on September 13, 2008 by

The older I get, the more I veer toward the “nature” side of the gender argument. Admittedly, I’ve been pretty skewed toward the gender-is-a-construct side of the spectrum since all that reading about transgendered rights I did in my 20s. … Continue reading →

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So maybe they hate it too

Posted on May 7, 2008 by

This is the thing I’ve been biting my tongue about bitching about. Unsuccessfully for the most part. My generation really came of age as poets in the early 1970s, and while women were starting to write in great numbers in … Continue reading →

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Five things, 10pm

Posted on May 6, 2008 by

Slowly breaking through to daylight Slowly breaking through to daylight Slowly breaking through to daylight Slowly breaking through to daylight Slowly breaking through to daylight Slowly breaking through to daylight Slowly breaking through to daylight Slowly breaking through to daylight … Continue reading →

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Mother. Fuckers.

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

News on Feministing is often bad and I usually don’t have the energy to get all mad and stuff, but this really riled me up: At the beginning of the semester, there was an incident here at Yale involving a … Continue reading →

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