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I Ain't No Hollaback Girl . . . & God is Brazilian.
Ok, I know that Gwen Stefani is not everyone’s role model, but she is mine right now, because I ain’t no hollaback girl. Right now, I’m in Rio de Janeiro, conducting thesis research, and there’s so much to see, do, and understand beyond the issue of the postcards with pictures of girls’ butts on them. Same [...]
Posted: January 17th, 2008 under God, beg, beggar, brazil, catholic, child, cristo rendator, girl, gwen stefani, hollaback, hollaback girl, hostel, inequality, jewish, omnipotent, omnivorous, pagan, religion, rio de janeiro, social inequality, thesis.
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Operation Screw the Prostitutes in Bolivia
Having spent several weeks in Bolivia this summer, and visited El Alto (lit. the heights), the neighborhood on the lip of the canyon where the capital of Bolvia, La Paz, this news is especially disturbing. (Curtsy to $3.60 for the update.) Reuters, via Yahoo News, reports that “Prostitutes in the Bolivian city of El Alto [...]
Posted: November 12th, 2007 under Aymara, Bolivia, La Paz, Lily Cortez, Media, Quechua, Ramiro Orellana, abortion, activism, activists, bar, birth control, brothel, catholic, che, chola, culture, danger, dangerous, discrimination, el alto, endangered, fasting, feminism, feminist, human rights, hunger strike, indigenous, karaoke, latin america, legal, mayor, media attention, murder, mutilation, neighborhood, nighttime workers, pimping, prostitute, prostitution, protest, red light district, restaurant, sewing lips together, sewing mouth closed, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexism, sexual capital, socioeconomic, socioeconomics, standard of beauty, technology, violation, women's rights.
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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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Good girl, bad girl, . . . awesome agent of self-liberation?
Spending all of that time (22 hours now) lying on floors and sitting in chairs and lying across chairs trying not to fall asleep because I needed to listen to the loudspeaker announcements in the Viru Viru airport would have been a lot less fun if I hadn´t had people to talk to. Nicole, a [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Argentina, Buenos Aires, Cartman, Catholicism, Cochabamba, Female Sexuality, Lima, Machu Picchu, Peru, South Park, Toranto, Viru Viru, airlines, airport, alcohol, baby seals, bad girl, bare hands, beer, boliche, catholic, culture, dildo, drinking, fatigue, forest firefighter, gender roles, good girl, grandmother, housewife, i do what i want, killing baby seals, latin america, laughter, masculinity, masturbation, mother, nervous laughter, orphanage, prankster, prostitution, razor, sex, sexual morality, shaving, spanish, spitting, tampon, wax, whorehouse.
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Red Eye, and !Ojo para viajeros: la red del disastre!
I was on the red eye to La Paz, Bolivia last night. Perhaps everything was going too well: the previous flight had had free refills and personal tv sets for each passenger and offered me both Before Sunset and I Heart Huckabees in addition to an episode of the Simpsons where Bart and Lisa switch [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under Bart Simpson, Before Sunset, Bolivia, Canadian, Cuzco, I Heart Huckabees, La Paz, Lima, Lisa Simpson, Peru, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, TV, Viru Viru, airlines, catholic, economics, free, gender, goody two shoes, horror movie, latino, law, peruvian, professional, punishable offense, race, red eye, refills, risk analyst, sexual harassment, television, the Simpsons, troublemaker, turbulence.
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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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Make Gay, Not War: the Gay Bomb and Gaydar
Homosexuality has come up in some odd places recently. One of them is over at $3.60, where my attention was brought to a CBS special on a new strategy by the Federal Government to create a Gay Bomb which would release a chemical hormone that would make enemy combatants irresistably attractive to one another. For [...]
Posted: June 20th, 2007 under DNA, Darwin, Gay, Oscar Wilde, bigotry, biology, bomb, catholic, gay animals, gaydar, homosexuality, military, morality, penis, psychology, science, scientist, secret, sexuality, straight, study, testicles, vagina, weapon, womb.
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