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		<title>Intentionality and Appropriation</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2012/04/10/intentionality-and-appropriation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;ll start by saying that I&#8217;m probably the person that gets pegged as &#8220;PC-er than thou&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where We Find Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2012/02/10/where-we-find-ourselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Journey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Life Photography Show at In Other Words!</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2012/02/02/mobile-life-photography-show-at-in-other-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[top surgery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited to say that I just finished hanging photos at In Other Words Feminist Community Center! Here&#8217;s more on the show itself: Mobile Life &#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Links between cultural attitudes towards weight and queerness</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2012/01/31/links-between-cultural-attitudes-towards-weight-and-queerness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queerly Allied</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2012/01/12/queerly-allied/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thisnik.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s something I experience fairly often at school, as the resident openly queer queer.  I&#8217;m certainly not the only one there, but the on-campus presence is small enough that I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Analysis of Feminine Expression in the World of the Belgariad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Spokane, Washington in 1931, David Eddings was an author most noted for his work in the fantasy genre.  The work he is perhaps most known for is an epic fantasy twelve books in length.  This epic is comprised of two five-book series, the Belgariad and Malloreon, and two prequels, Belgarath the Sorcerer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passing (How It Looks Right Now)</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2011/10/26/passing-how-it-looks-right-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, self care looks like taking an hour out of a day which is already very long to make space for myself. Job one is done for the day, and school finished, and now I’m fixing a good hot meal so I have something more than almonds, caffeine and adrenaline running through myself.  The other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bravery/Necessity</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2011/10/18/braverynecessity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thisnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bravery in personal identity has been a recurring theme lately, as people tell me how courageous a person was for being open about their identity or really communicating about their individual needs.  People have even told me that I’m brave for being open about being trans and queer – though I wonder if they’d say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Space You Take</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2011/09/08/the-space-you-take/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thisnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[privilege]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last month or so, the way people read me has changed. Where I used to consistently get feminine pronouns, confusion, or stumbling over my preferred pronouns, now I’m being called “sir” without a moment’s hesitation.  I’m wearing the same nerdy button-down shirts, have the same chunky glasses, tattoos and almost-flyaway haircut that does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainability: Little Actions, Big Change</title>
		<link>http://thisnik.com/2011/08/22/sustainability-little-actions-big-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thisnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction As an American living in the green-conscious city of Portland, OR, I see the words “sustainable”, “green” and “eco friendly” perhaps dozens of times when I go shopping at my locally owned grocery store. But are products wrapped in excess packaging which have traveled possibly thousands of miles from their point of origin where [...]]]></description>
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