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Remind My Soul: Love, Shamans, In/Dependency, Planets
A few airports and bad plane meals ago, I was in Cuzco, Peru, with two friends, and we stumbled upon a shaman. Well, that’s not actually what happened. What happened was that we were playing the souvenir-hungry tourists and walking into every door with shiny things on the other side, and we walked into this [...]
Posted: July 27th, 2007 under Akrobatik, American, Angel Herrera, Cusco, Cuzco, Gloria Steinem, Incan, John Gray, Men are From Mars, Peru, Ph.D., Shamanic, Women are From Venus, addiction, airport, akka'ala, ancestor, antepasados, aya'ala, bell hooks, bicycle, bisexual, boa, buddhism, buddhist, catholic, ceremonial, chakra, chemistry, clothing, co-dependence, coca, coca leaf, coca leaves, communion, condor, dependence, dependency, dichotomy, earrings, fish, food, forgiveness, gender, gender dynamics, growth, handmade, heart, heterosexual, higher world, homosexual, honesty, indigenous, intimacy, love, makka'ala, mars, matrimonial, monogamy, mysticism, one night stand, partnership, physical love, pipe, plane, polyamory, pre-Christian, pre-Incan, puma, relationship, relationships, remind my soul, romance, romantic, rubber bands, self awareness, self-advocacy, self-identification, serial monogamist, serial monogamy, sex, sex positive, sexual, sexual communion, shaman, shamans, shame, shameless, single, skepticism, soul, souvenir, space, spiritual, spirituality, sweater, theology, tourist, tourists, underworld, universe, venus, virgin, virgin/whore dichotomy, whore, wiphala, world.
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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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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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