I bet you're worried.
I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. So begins Eve Ensler’s battle cry for women in The Vagina Monologues. And so begins her talk at TED. I’ve talked about […]
100 New Book Classics
Oh, I love Entertainment Weekly and their lists (seriously, the writers there have one of the coolest jobs in the world of writing). This recent list looked at the 100 […]
This is what war does…
One of my former students is a wonderful woman named Sarah Durnbaugh. Sarah is a breath of fresh air. Steady, committed, brilliant, compassionate, funny, observant- just as fine as they come. […]
Can't Buy My Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0iivtTclM] Jean Kilbourne has been a media literacy activist for decades. Can’t Buy My Love was orignally published as Deadly Persuasion and is one of the books that I am […]
Make more time for yourself
Just worked my way through the July issue of Real Simple and loved an article by Elizabeth Fenner on creating more free time in one’s schedule (loved it so much, […]
The Body Project
I am teaching a seminar on body image this fall at the University of North Carolina- Charlotte. I had to pick my books by the end of June (oh, the […]
The Middle Place
I just finished The Middle Place by Kelly Corrigan, and I am aching. Aching at the beauty of it, at her good humor, honesty, and vulnerability, at the awful fates […]
When I grow up, I want to be…
One of the activities I sometimes do with groups who are taking my journaling workshops is ask them to list ten careers they would just love to do- for whatever […]
From the vault: a poem from July 1994
This was one of the first pieces I wrote in an attempt to actively reconcile my ethnic identity, body image, and beauty perception. I had just returned from a trip to […]
Made In LA
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/Nr1ABz65hXI&hl=en] I watched Bordertown a few weeks ago and was heartbroken at so many things in it, including the way that faculty laborers are treated. It has been on my […]
