gorgeous curiosity
Friday, October 25, 2013

Can Torture Be Reformed Into Acceptable Punishment?

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Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow Last weekend I spent a sizable chunk of my waking hours listening to some powerful refor...
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Sunday, July 28, 2013

Embarrassment is not an Emergency. I don't think.

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I am not very confident about this. I went to the ER a few weeks ago, in the middle of the night, with a friend who is my Dad's age....
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

This too, is resistance.

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This is what happened when I tried to "relax" so I could take a less stressed-out picture for Linz the other day. “I feel ...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

This is the year of Ferocity.

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The following is excerpted from a long letter I wrote to my friends and family on Jan. 16th, 2013. I am sharing it here. Welcome back,...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

We're Just Here to Watch the Game, Officer

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Riding the high of our freezing, raining, slightly disorganized and overwhelmingly policed action at the Port of Long Beach on Dec 12t...
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Vanessa
Los Angeles, CA, United States
I am a queer/pan/poly/anti-racist/anti-state writer, teacher, performer, sex worker, activist and glutton for discovery. Sometimes I'm funny. I love and live Otherwise. I am determined to undermine my generation's penchant for accepting cynicism as a substitute for brilliance. These are mini-essays about attempts at living a more critically aware, more hilarious, more politically courageous, more honest, more sparkling life in community with comrades of all stripes.
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