in-sub-or-din-ate adjective disobedient, unruly, wayward, errant, badly behaved, disorderly,undisciplined, delinquent, troublesome,rebellious, defiant,recalcitrant, uncooperative, willful, intractable,unmanageable,uncontrollable; awkward, difficult, perverse, contrary; disrespectful, cheeky. Next example, 5th grade: My teacher had just relocated to NorCal from Mississippi, she was super feminine, super Christian and very conservative. One day after school, she told me she wished I would let her call me by my given name. (I went by my initials, [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Remembering where I came from…
- 22
- Jun
I saw this today on Workisnotajob.com: One Spring night in 2008 I lay in bed, eyes shut tight against the persistent voice in my mind growling at me. The chatter grew from a whisper to a roar when I finally gave up on sleep, opened my eyes and turned on the light. This is what [...]
Me and Authority…
- 17
- Jun
in-sub-or-di-nate |ˌinsəˈbôrdn-it| adjective defiant of authority; disobedient to orders: an insubordinate attitude. Being inherently insubordinate means I take risks at the strangest moments… One of my earliest memories is when I was in Kindergarten at snack time. My friend was totally disgusted by the more than slightly bruised bananas being passed out to us. She actually shrieked at the dark brown [...]
My thesis project: Polyamory in East Bay Communities of Color
- 14
- Jun
Call for participants!!! I am conducting ethnographic research on polyamory in communities of color of the East Bay. I would like to interview people of color, between the ages of 30 and 45 years old, who are open to their friends and family about having multiple consensual intimate relationships. Participants must live in the East [...]
33 ways to dance with water…
- 13
- Jun
A water healer sang this to me the morning of my 33rd birthday: God danced the day you were born The angels did the bump to Gabriel’s horn God danced the day you were born So grateful for the gift that is you… I had never heard the song before, but it swam into my [...]
Evolutionary Psychology is a discipline of make believe.
- 05
- Jun
We have a cultural concept that assumes a genetic hard-wiring to gender roles and sexual behavior. This cultural assumption is disseminated through popular media, creating a form of ‘pop-evo-psych’. In a 2009 article published in the journal Feminist Media Studies, Amy Hasinoff reported her findings from a textual analysis of Cosmopolitan magazine from 1995-2005. Hasinoff [...]
Exhale
- 02
- Jun
The first year of grad school is completed. Many thanks to all of those shoulders, arms, minds and smiles that helped me stay sane for the most part. Those last two weeks were a bit surreal. But I got good grades and I know I am learning. I definitely feel like I’m in the middle [...]
