Archive for 'Peru'
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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There’s A First Time For Everything, but todavia no for Graciela
I just stumbled across this story from the BBC about Graciela Yataco, a Peruvian model-cum-actress who at the age of 18 has been working to support her mother and brother for 10 years and out of school for 3. The article’s about her decision to sell, and then not to sell, her virginity for 1.5 [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2007 under BBC, Canada, Catholicism, Christianity, Genesis, God, Graciela Yataco, Judeo-Christian, Peru, Pornography, Sex Roles, Women and Gender Studies, objectification, pimp, porn star, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sex work, sex workers, sexual advance, virginity.
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