I want to write of many things. I want to write of power and privilege, of privilege and guilt. Of permanence and transience, and intersections of the two. Of race and color and skin and sexuality. Of women, men, children, and home. I want to write of gender based violence, nationalism and reproductive health…materialism and consumption and ( Read more... )

so i'm applying to internships for the summer. i'm (apparently) looking for one in east or southern africa: kenya, tanzania, uganda, zambia, or malawi. i've been sending flurries of emails to the continent in hopes that someone will take me under their wing and show me what i need to know about preventing aids, or preventing gender-based violence ( Read more... )

my brief honeymoon with swahili is over. it quickly disintegrated, leaving us fighting like an old married couple. one of those old married couple's where one partner really doesn't want to write the essay but the other is incredibly insistent. guess which party i represent ( Read more... )

doing the tag post thingy where i say ten things that no one knows about me and then tag people to do the same ( Read more... )

academia makes my head spin. in one day i get to learn about:

1. critical agency of ethnicity
2. geeky crap i love, like social experiences of time and space and how time both organizes society and is socially organized.
3. how people die--as in, tables and tables and tables of mortality rates.

i am tired.

i just got the new fangled, high speed thing you kids call internet installed in my home and i couldn't be more excited. i haven't had internet this easy since the dorms. so am celebrating with a little ol' live journal post ( Read more... )

so, i'm lazy. this is something i've always secretly known about myself but haven't made public till now. lazy in a good way (in my maturing opinion)...reading books and hanging out during a rainy misty cold and grey day sounds just sumptuous ( Read more... )

i have to commemorate this dude who's sitting across from me at the library and all his hilarity/absurdity/grossness, so i decided to write a post about it ( Read more... )

i've worked myself up into such a state of obsessive frenzy about myspace that i'm deciding to go off it for awhile. just like, you know, till my apartment has internet. i'm spending most of my time meandering around, attempting to get bearings of some sort. found the library today, which will/already has become my safest of safe havens. and i' ( Read more... )

ryan and i have successfully managed to thwart the system of housing in the los angeles area by renting a place and not selling any important body parts. actually, depends on what you consider a "vital" organ, but really it's not too bad. and, it's nine blocks from the beach. AND (which is it's selling point for me) it is right behind the most ( Read more... )