Month: July 2012

  • the insane

    We treat these people who go on shooting rampages as completely insane, as though they are impossible to see in “good society”, but we do not make the comparison to soldiers who are required to do a similar thing; to believe without doubt that their mission is “right” as they enter a room, a battlefield,…

  • reflections on Jane Sexes it Up and definitions of feminism

    Reading Jane Sexes it Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, a series of essays edited by Merri Lisa Johnson about third wave feminists negotiating their feminism with their sexual desires, I thought a lot about where I am now in this debate or “problem” that many of us feminists seem to grapple so wildly with:…

  • Polyamory and the Revolutionary Power of Language Imagination (ALIVEness & Polyamory)

    Two questions that come up a lot for me in conversation: n  “Is sex REALLY just like seeing a movie at the cinema? Why then are we so hung up on it?” n  “Do conscientious choices in our language help us to transform our collective understanding and therefore our personal reactions to a given situation?”…