Transforming an argument into a great talk while sitting on a park bench ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was gone all day at a wine tasting trip with Maggie, Billy, and his coworkers. We went to Long Island to three wineries, one of which had a little Italian festival going on. There was a lot of beer and music on the bus on the way up, and more beer and music on the way back to Brooklyn. My camera didn't have batteries so I took some ( Read more... )

I am making this post from my sidekick. Xavier and I are laying together in bed. We had a funny moment after some awesome lovin' haha. I told him that it felt so good I wanted to morph into an eagle. Hahaha. He was like... How Native American of you, Tia. We won't even talk about the rocket ship comment. Awwww I love this guy.... After all that, he ( Read more... )

was AMAZING. I'll have to talk about it more when I'm not so sleepy but let me just say it's worth it, and that my mind has never been so engaged in my life. I cannot wait for all the other wednesdays to come ( Read more... )

A chunk out of Arundhati Roy's speech, "Come September" very thoroughly sum up my feelings on the aformentioned term ( Read more... )

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It's absolutely beautiful outside today, just the kind of weather I love. Grey, but not a dreary grey. I woke up, curious about how will be today, the experience of living in NYC on September 11th. On my way in this morning, at 8:46, the subways shut down and announced that it was precisely this moment five years ago when the first tower was hit. A ( Read more... )

"Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality" is a diverse collection of writing by Muslim women, whose experiences are particularly poignant given contemporary political realities. The contributors hail from over a dozen countries, and share stories about their bodies and their communities. One woman mourns the death of a cousin ( Read more... )

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