Mother’s Day Or Else
Just in time for Mother’s Day, a couple of my students have contributed heartrending blog posts related to mothers and grandmothers. Check out Letter from Your Gay Granddaughter and Mothers in Prison...
View Article(Not So) New Publications
I keep forgetting to mention that I’ve got an article in the Winter 2008 issue of Soho House Magazine. Entitled “Taekwondo in a Hijab: Muscular Feminism in Iran,” it looks at the achievements of a...
View Article1-2-3-4-5-6-7 Count the Days
I can’t even count the days I’ve been gone. I’m finishing the manuscript of my next book now, and plan to be back when that’s done. Old friends may remember that I started this blog with the question...
View ArticleMoo-ving on Up!
Big news, folks. Dunno why it’s taken me so long to announce this, but I am moving back to the sanctuary, where I’ll be living in a 1973 Airstream trailer, sharing my front yard with cows and chickens...
View Article“at least as beautiful as any boy or helicopter”
Lesbian-feminist poet, essayist, and activist Adrienne Rich died this week at 82. Here’s a quote from her poem, “The Burning of Paper Instead of Children“: I am composing on the typewriter late at...
View ArticleA Case Study in Calamity
I've got a new book out. Let's call it a case study in calamity, in the course of which I try to demonstrate a method of thinking through the ways that social, psychological, and material (economic and...
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