Yesterday, I did some shopping. As I was leaving a store, leaving the store, two white women walked in. As I stepped over the threshold of the shop, one turned around and said, “Do you work here?” I turned around, propping the door open with my shoulder. “Nope,” I replied, and left.
Yeah, all the people [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 4, 2008
do I look like a shopgirl?
June 2, 2008
what I need to do in the next two days:
Prepare for my final two final exams (US history and French)
Read Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
Return a fiction book, a French textbook, an English textbook (opened once), and a US history textbook
Finish a painting
Go to work
Pack for a trip to Chicago
Memorize two piano pieces
Sight read a Schubert string quartet; this also means I have to find [...]
June 2, 2008
why I like the label “feminist.”
As I’ve been reading feminist discourse and feminist blogs, I’ve stumbled on a large number of women and men and people who have chosen to reject the label of “feminist” and distance themselves from the “feminism” movement.
But while the different brands differ radically and I certainly don’t like the tactics of certain groups, nor agree [...]
June 1, 2008
in which the universe does not care.
A Man Said to the Universe
Stephen Crane
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
“A sense of obligation.”
