August 2011
5 posts
so essentially, progress is bunk →
objectification of women in the media has only increased over recent decades.
“But our leadership does not really get what is at stake. Even in my relatively...”
Today, I got locked outside of my house in the pouring rain (dad was in the shower and didn’t hear the doorbell…) and I needed to pee so desperately I went in the backyard.
July 2011
20 posts
#inspiration →
Harvard and Class →
“His nipples peeped at Rahel over the top of the boundary wall like a sad St....”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
i need to learn to let go.
TOMS was in the process of setting up a partnership with Focus on the Family as an international distributor. This is an organization known for its anti-gay rhetoric/actions, etc. While there was some debate regarding whether this is a problem - i.e. some argue that donating shoes shouldn’t have anything to do with a “political” agenda and so there’s really no problem - I...
“We moved to Indonesia in 2007 to help develop a school that was based around a...”
– Charlotte Bacon
Sign that I am growing up: snack time today consisted of prosciutto on sea-salt crackers garnished with spiced fig and red wine confit.
"$20 billion! Indian Temple's secret vaults yield... →
And that would be more than India’s education budget…
“IN an essay published in 1895 called “How to Tell a Story,” Mark Twain chastised...”
– Dear Mark Twain, you and i, we would be besties
cool lady →
Is patience a virtue?
I know I’m wildly impatient, so I’m inclined to think not. I tend to see my own impatience as momentum, make-things-happen-ness.
But I know it’s also useful to learn when to let my blood pressure chill. I’m trying to get better at this.
June 2011
31 posts
My second short story was critiqued in class today! It’s about a bereaved mother who starts corresponding with an online scammer… It went pretty well, I thought - everyone wanted more, so perhaps I will expand on it?
Also talked to the professor about maybe pursuing an MFA post college? We’ll see.
“Lesbian South Africans are living in fear as rape and murder become a daily...”
“The shorthand of it is that women run for office to do something, and men run...”
– Why Women Don’t Get Caught Up in Sex Scandals, NYTIMES
(The flip side of this is that women are held to a higher standard by the public and are more likely to be criticized and shamed… see “media on Hillary Clinton’s aging” as a reference)
My mother is a baller.
She got into public health school!!! wooo NYU Global Health
I cannot seem to get over my crush on Walt Whitman.
He is dead. And (was) gay.
Oh, mildly problematic.
india has the distinct honor of being one of the... →
Other honorees include Afghanistan and Congo, but India has the specific distinction of being the only rising economic super power.
This is when the economicgrowth=empowerment logic is proven incorrect.
“Sultana’s Dream” is a classic work of Bengali science fiction and...”
– Adventures in Wikipedia
So today my first fiction piece was workshopped in class, and it felt so good! I was pretty proud of my story - I saw it as a way to examine the nature of power dynamics as they relate to story-telling-and-sharing. In his written feedback, my professor called it “deliciously sinister” and “quite accomplished.” Praise always feels good, but especially in this case, because I...
“Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et...”
– Catullus 85 (via brendazhang)
Win for women in New Delhi (albeit a small one) →
Baller: Iceland is crowdsourcing its constitution.... →
This is where i do the whole hashtag-democracywin
I’m kindof, really a sucker for all the glitter and femininity that is Jenny Packham.
“Yes, we must read and reread what Jean-Marie Benoist has left us. I will do so...”
– “The Taste of Tears,” Derrida
I am not Indian.
The world is all about reduction right now, and I don’t like it. Straight-up single line answers or summaries or generalized blasts of information never work. It is complicated. It is nuanced and crazy and zig-zagg-y all over the place. It most probably does have its roots in some form of historical oppression.
“The policy is that you are not supposed to have a tutor,” said the Riverdale...”
– What’s wrong with our higher education system — from: Push for A’s at Private Schools Is Keeping Costly Tutors Busy (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/education/08tutors.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1)
