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“Ding Dong The Bitch Is Dead!” Won’t Save Oz: Thoughts on Thatcher’s Death

This morning I received a message from a friend on Margaret Thatcher’s death. He shared no opinion, positive or negative, on Thatcher’s life and work, but instead wrote this: Motivation, her motivation, your motivation. Public figures like Thatcher and Heath or Blair are fair game for everyone with an opinion. That probably means us all. [...]

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Back Where It All Started: An Afternoon At FOMMA

Pedro and Rosa’s baby is sick. “I’m going to go sell the cow to buy medicine for the baby,” Pedro tells Rosa, “I’ll be back soon.” Off he goes, cow in tow, which he entrusts to a friend to sell for him. But Pedro’s friend doesn’t return. Penniless and far from home, Pedro comes upon [...]

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13 in ’13: My Grateful Homecoming to Chiapas

I’m back, baby! After a long journey (in planes, trains, and automobiles, no less) from Bielefeld –> Dusseldorf –> Cancún –> Isla Mujeres –> San Cristóbal de las Casas, I’m finally en casa yet again in Chiapas sweet Chiapas. I dreamt many times of this return over the course of my six months in Germany, [...]

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I Talked To Raquel!

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been in Germany on workcation for the last four months. Next month, I’m back to home sweet adopted home Chiapas and I have to say, I’m pretty pumped. My time in Germany has felt like one, long, neverending workday. Sure, I’m here with my San Cris sweetheart. [...]

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From the Vault: Domestic Violence Before and After

I once heard that, to write well, one must have distance from their subject. My recent article and video, I Want You To Hit Me And Other Lessons I’ve Learned From Woman-Blaming Misogynists, are exercises in distance. My feminism–sorry, feminawesome–was shaped by my experiences with domestic violence in my family and relationships. Today I write [...]

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Unexpected Eggrolls

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is still the longest running show in sweet home Chicago. In fact, it’s almost as old as me–TML and The Neo-Futurists, the troupe behind it, have been goin’ strong since 1988. Thirty plays in sixty minutes. That’s their schtick. And they do it with humor and honesty [...]

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28 Days Later: The Asshole Whac-a-Mole

Okay, so maybe I backdated this entry. (Change that two to a four and you’ve got a more honest title.) But I wanted to update you on the results of my 21-Day Ban on Assholes and “Almost Two Months Later” just doesn’t have the same ring. So, how did I do? Well, remember when I [...]

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