December 2011
Glad that went over well.
manhattansunrise reblogged your post: A Story Of Two Gifts
Uh, I think this is really fucking romantic. Why aren’t there romantic comedies about computer hard drive repair???
Guys, I truly thought people would be so appalled by the fact that my boyfriend is a robot that NO ONE WOULD GET how incredibly thoughtful his gift was. I know it’s a hard drive and I can’t wear it and no one...
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A Story Of Two Gifts
A couple weeks ago, Patrick woke me up with an early Christmas gift.
Keep in mind, my boyfriend is not one for grand romantic gestures or surprises. We have long discussions about love as a social construct and arguments about whether the institution of marriage is more a tool of capitalism or patriarchy. We “celebrate” Valentine’s Day by making sure we have enough groceries, so...
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The Year in Dealbreakers | GOOD →
Check out Amanda Hess’ round-up of “Dealbreakers” columns that ran this year on GOOD Magazine (including the one I wrote: He’s Got An Asian Fetish).
I’ve been reading the series semi-religiously (sort of like what I used to do with the New York Times’ Modern Love before it became increasingly contrived). I’ve loved some of the pieces, grimaced at others,...
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“Over the course of the past year, I have developed a terrible obsession with...”
– “I’m Obsessed With Asian Massage Parlors — Should I Tell My Wife?”, Tracy Clark-Flory | AlterNet
And this is just the latest example of how I am terrified by and disappointed in society on a daily basis.
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Nearly 1 in 5 American women has been sexually... →
Patrick emailed this to me the other day, and you want to know the saddest thing? My reaction was, “Oh, yay, a man actually gets it.” As if I should be handing out gold stars to people for recognizing that rape is a problem.
Let it be known: sexual assault happens. A lot. I can think of six or seven people I know off the top of my head who have been raped, and I am only 24. And none...
Some Updates
Don’t have a visa. Don’t have enough pages in my passport to get a visa. Don’t have time to remedy the situation before I leave the country tomorrow. Don’t have the willpower or emotional capacity to speak to a person in Chinese again today. DO, however, have party photos from the weekend.
I sent a frantic email to the German, who I expect to fix everything. Go feminism.
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True Story
During freshman week at Harvard, one of my friends passed me off, somewhat successfully, as the crown princess of Brunei. I think the end goal was getting into a party and/or fucking with someone.
Guess there were enough royal children on campus to make this sort of thing believable.
Annual Check-Up Today
This entire process lasted two hours and involved seven forms, peeing in a cup, and a solicitation to participate in a genetic study (which I declined, because I really can’t deal with getting blood drawn).
What I Learned From An Afternoon At Brigham & Women’s Hospital:
I have abnormally low cholesterol. Um, yay?
I’m now vaccinated against the flu AND tetanus. So take...
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Anonymous asked: why did you decide ultimately to move to berlin?
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Travel Itinerary: NY/Germany/Asia/California
Despite holing up all autumn in Boston, I’m not nearly as far along as I’d like to be with my book proposal. I took most of the fall off from writing so that I could focus and be done with it by Thanksgiving. I still did a few freelance assignments and had a few contracts to fulfill, mostly video work (and since I have no qualms about misusing parentheses, this is where I’ll...
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“I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s...”
– From the ch!cktionary — The Patriarchy Wants A Lesson On Privilege 101, written a little over a year ago :)
Jesus, over 4,000 notes on Tumblr now … AMAZING, people.
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FDA Recommendation For Over-The-Counter Access To... →
In what can only be called an astounding move by an Administration that pledged on inauguration day that medical and health decisions would be based on fact not ideology and for which women are a major constituency, today Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) overruled a much-awaited decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make...
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10 Myths About Sex and Virginity - Debunked →
So glad to see that people are still talking about this! Over at lipstick-feminists, a reader submitted a piece by the fab Lori Adelman about some takeaway points from the Rethinking Virginity Conference I organized back in 2010. Lori wrote:
The conference was organized by Lena Chen and the Harvard Queer Students’ Association, and brought together an incredibly diverse and impressive group of...