Author Archives: thisnik
I originally wrote this as a post for a class I am taking about Native American religious and spiritual practices. A component of this class includes an expectation that students experientially engage in individual rituals to deepen their understanding. I’ll start by saying that I’m probably the person that gets pegged as “PC-er than thou” [...]
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 [...]
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