I am…er…transfixed. Wait, did I say “playing Prince of Persia”? I meant reading Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism. What did you think I meant? What, you people like me participate in mass entertainment culture? A mass entertainment culture with Orientalist elements? And write about it? Using our own names? While struggling to maintainContinue reading “Having finally gotten around to playing the new Prince of Persia”
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Abortion is Not the Issue
Looking over this discussion on The Hand Mirror – a discussion spawned by the Catholic Church’s genius handling of the issues surrounding the rape and impregnation of a nine-year-old Brazilian girl – I am once again struck by what a huge red herring this entire ZOMG ABORTION thing is. Here’s a fact: abortion has alwaysContinue reading “Abortion is Not the Issue”
Things for you to read (and look at) at the door of Spring 2009
Spring is my favourite season. I’m writing an essay and a short story on the subject right now, and while I’m doing that, please check out the following: Hexy interviewed by Renee Martin. This is a really good, and really important read for any feminist, womanist, sex worker rights advocate, progressive person, and so onContinue reading “Things for you to read (and look at) at the door of Spring 2009”
Spring comes to my household
And mostly the time for Natalia to drink coffee in the yard, whilst wearing a set of out-of-season “ho ho ho” pajamas in pink and white, and watching the cats as they watch the bugs (no picture is forthcoming).
On Rape, Catholicism, and Priorities – AGAIN
Boy, why does this story look so familiar? So those who helped secure an abortion for a NINE-YEAR-OLD are bad, evil people. Meanwhile, I haven’t exactly heard that the RAPIST of said nine-year-old has been excommunicated. I mean, why should he? He was just helping the little girl fullfill her duty as a human vessel!Continue reading “On Rape, Catholicism, and Priorities – AGAIN”
Natalia A. 