Author Archives: thisnik
I’m packing to move – again – (this is a life ever on the move, it seems, nomadic in so many ways) and as I put my books in milkcrates borrowed from a friend, I keep a small stack aside. I’m assembling the list of books that I own that have shaped my understanding of [...]
I’m excited to say that I just finished hanging photos at In Other Words Feminist Community Center! Here’s more on the show itself: Mobile Life Art is where you find it. The best camera is the one you have with you. Life is beauty. With these three ideas in mind, I chose to document [...]
There’s an interesting new book out called Seeking the Straight and Narrow:Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America. In it, author Lynne Gerber discusses the fascinating correlations between attitudes towards fatness and homosexuality. In a Salon interview about the new book, she notes “If you think about what fatness and gayness represent, they are [...]
Have you ever been in the situation where your identity makes you the automatic authority on all things related to that facet of yourself? It’s something I experience fairly often at school, as the resident openly queer queer. I’m certainly not the only one there, but the on-campus presence is small enough that I am [...]
