Millions of women living in similar circumstances--but with very different psychological profiles and cultural backgrounds--can expect to meet similar fates. Their sickness [AIDS] is a result of structural violence: neither culture nor pure individual will is at fault; rather, historically given (or economically driven) processes and forces ( Read more... )

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Life is beautiful. Some days, here, it's hard, too. I forgot that part. I'm not yet as numb to the death and dying as I was out in my village ( Read more... )

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Um, so, Saturday. On Saturday, I leave.

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I've given up and caved to the glory of flickr. Hence, I will not explode your precious friends page. Instead, you must visit here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/9916651@N06/. C'est tout! Bonne nuit!

So Jessalyn has had a scanner this whole time (she moved in at the beginning of December, just for the record), that I did not know about. I'm not sure how this could have possibly happened. Was she hiding it behind her toilet? I think not. Anyways, not only do we now have a functioning scanner, I also found a shit-ton of old photos (proofs, not ( Read more... )

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Bicycling through the early morning dark, wind tilting me back and forth precariously, rain pelting my face. Riding hard, my muscles burning, and the dark dark dark of the spring storm which is cold, much too cold for spring, and I am flanked by a deep pink, a startling color against the shadow of the weather, lit from within as well, as if by some ( Read more... )