Archive for July, 2007
Bolivia and Women as Vessels of Cultural Authenticity
Tonight, my flight leaves for Bolivia at 8:30. I´m excited for the visit because my money will go farther there, and because it will be the first country that I´ve ever been to which has a thriving indigenous culture. It´s a culture that I don´t know much about, so I´ve been trying to do some [...]
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under 18th century, Aramayá, Barbie, Bolivia, Bolivian, Female Sexuality, La Paz, Miss Bolivia, Quillacollo, Robert Albro, Western, anthropology, bourgeoisie, chola, cholita, colonialism, culture, designer jeans, dress, empire, empowerment, fashion, femininity, gender, globalization, historical actor, identity, image, indigenous culture, market seller, objectification, oppression, politics, pop culture, popular woman, resistance, root metaphor, spanish king, standard of beauty, traditional dress, viceroy toledo, woman.
Tags: Aymara
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On Sppeling, Philosophy of Language & Parrots
Right, so first the spelling thing and then on to the long awaited polyamory discussion. I have no idea why I’m not asleep right now, but I’m sure I’ll get to that eventually. I’ve never really seen the need to respell words – ie wimmin, womyn etc. – to exclude men and man from them. [...]
Posted: July 7th, 2007 under American, Unapologetically Female, attraction, awkward, bilingual, cathartic, cheating, cigarette, cousin, cynicism, diction, emotional attachment, emotions, encyclopedia, english, feelings, female, feminism, feminist, feminist philosophers, force, foreplay, gender, gender neutrality, grammar, hand, invisibility, language, law, legal definition, linguistics, los abandonados, love, male, male gaze, male perspective, male worldview, man, mascot, masturbation, mixtape, orgasm, parrot, philosophers, philosophy, philosophy of language, polyamory, primate, psycholinguistics, rape, relationships, school, semantics, sex, sexual activity, sexual harassment, sexual partner, sexual relations, spanish, spelling, stanford, the invisible woman, wimmin, womyn, words.
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Poly: Want Another Lover?
Several weeks ago I dropped by an apartment in Baltimore with a friend to meet some of her future roommates. We had a great dinner and conversation, which allowed us to completely get over the fact that they had described themselves as a group of ´womyn´ in their craigslist ad (We were a funny combination of self-described [...]
Posted: July 6th, 2007 under Baltimore, Craigslist, education, feminists, learning environment, liberal arts, politics, polyamorous, polyamory, roommates, spelling, traditional, womyn, word coinage.
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You Had Me At Hello: Sex, Power, Rape.
In castellano, as residents of Buenos Aires, who call themselves porteños, call their native language, there are about a hundred ways to say hello. ¿Qué onda, buey? which translates literally as “what wave, ox?”, and more figuratively as “what’s the vibe, dude?” is the friendliest of the bunch, and a common choice among the hip [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2007 under Argentina, Argentine, Buenos Aires, God, Juncal, Nixon, administration, bar, buey, campus, cardboard, castellano, college, country, dinner, dragon, english, feminism, gender, greetings, happening, hello, hoodlum, interview, kathleen barry, language, latin america, manners, martial arts, night, party, physical power, physical threat, porteno, power, provecho, que onda, que pasa, que tal, rape, respect, restaurant, retail, safety, semantics, sex, sexual assault, shag carpet, slang, sociology, spanish, street, syntax, threat, villa, walking alone at night, wealth disparity, weapons, what.
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Power Dynamics: Is Feminism the Crack of the Academy?
This is a long one. If you’re not interested in theory or crack, you might like this instead. I’ve been writing a lot about the machismo present here in Buenos Aires, and I’ve been looking at it from a pretty unilateral and experience-based place. So it was interesting to read Jo Doezema’s article, “Ouch! Western [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under Amsterdam, Andrea Dworkin, Britain, Buenos Aires, Catherine MacKinnon, Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, Female Sexuality, Japan, Jo Doezema, Once Plaza, Ouch!, Sheila Jeffries, academy, anthropology, autonomy, class, communion, crack, culture, feminism, feminist, first world, geisha, health care, human rights, human rights caucus, identification, injury, kathleen barry, machismo, men, moral autonomy, objectification, oppression, political, power, power structure, prostitute, sex, sex partner, sex positive, sex positivity, sex work, sex worker, sexual objectification, sexual subordination, social stigma, stripper, the state, the west, theory, thesis, third world, white, whore, women, women's rights, wounded attachment.
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Reserved to be Judged by God: Prostitution in Argentina
Last night, over wine ($3.50 a bottle) at a fancy club where most people were in awe of a celebrity named Gisela something who none of my compatriots recognized, someone I had just met told me the story of being pressured to join a prostitution ring. It was a long story, but it can be [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under AMMAR, American, Argentina, Argentine, Argentine constitution, Bolivian, Buenos Aires, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Europe, Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation, Female Sexuality, Gisela, God, Mercy Plaza, Mujeres Creando, Ninguna mujer nace para puta, Once, Once Plaza, Plaza de la Merced, Plaza de la Puta, United States, VIP, activism, activist, arrest, awareness, breasts, brothel, cab, cabron, celebrity, club, condom, constitution, crime, curse, danger, english, fashion, feminism, feminist, fine, fur coats, garter belts, hijueputa, insult, jail, judge, law, marriage, national campaign, pedophile, police, prostitute, prostitution, prostitution ring, punk, retro-punk, scam, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, sexual harassment, sexual violence, spanish, swear, taxi, the state, tourism, tourists, vandalism, whore, wine.
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Notes from an insecure country, part dos: las virgenes y las putas
The distinction between the sexes is an important battleground these days. Not only do women demonstrate the capacity to work outside the home, but we have also co-opted behaviors that were previously considered masculine, such as smoking, drinking, and having (gasp!) sexual relations without necessarily planning to marry our partner or be their baby mama.
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under Argentina, Catholicism, Darwin, Female Sexuality, Research, catholic, center for science and culture, chaste, chastity, color contacts, conduct, culture, discovery institute, drinking, dyed hair, evolution, gay marriage, gender, gender roles, homosexuality, in vitro fertilization, intelligent design, latin america, lip ring, love, machismo, macho, male, maleness, marriage, masculinity, men, morality, premarital sex, prostitute, prostitution, researcher, scholar, science, scientist, sex, sexual morality, sexuality, smoking, target, theory, virginity, virtue.
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