Optimism is what you do, how you live. I write, which is a quintessential act of optimism. It sometimes means the triumph of faith over experience, a belief in communication, in community, in change, and, for me, in beauty. The power and beauty of language. I act with other women to create social change: activism […]
So these are the Sandias. Aren’t they amazing? “Sandia” means “watermelon” in Spanish and they’re called that because they turn the most flamboyant shade of pink at sunset. The mountains north of Santa Fe are called “Sangre de Cristos” for the same reason, though I like the idea of watermelon much better, […]
“My life as I have lived it owes everything to those who had come into it, stayed long or little, and passed out. Their love, as well as their hate, has gone into making my life worthwhile. Living My Life is my tribute and my gratitude to them all.”
–Emma Goldman, Living My Life
Bwahhhhhhhhh. […]
I’m stealing this from some other blog. I’m not linking; if you really care you can google it or do a feedster search. This is so obviously a lesbian meme that I don’t even feel guilty. I’m just returning it to the culture where it rightfully belongs.
Name and Age: Lexi, […]
methodolatry n: common form of academic idolatry; glorification of the god Method; boxing of knowledge into prefabricated fields, thereby hiding threads of connectedness, hindering New discoveries, preventing the raising of New Questions, erasing ideas that do not fit into Respectable Categories of Questions and Answers
From Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language […]
C’mon, admit it. I can hear your brain aching from all the highbrow content here lately. So, just to break up the poindexter monotony, I’m introducing a photo feature here at Feminist Reprise. Keeping in mind that I am the world’s worst photographer, me and my trusty Kodak Ektanar (circa 1987) will attempt […]
“In the United States, where milk and honey cost little enough, where private serenity is prized above all things by the wealthy, privileged, and well-washed, where tension, intensity, passion, and the concomitant loss of self-possession are detested, the idea that your attitudes and behaviors vis-a-vis your body are your politics and your spirituality may seem […]
I was thinking of this in regard to my piece about Levy’s book. This is a key concept that answers the oft-heard “but women do it too!” lament that Levy unfortunately falls prey to, and exposes the structural nature and purpose of tokenism. This concept is developed to its fullest extent in Daly’s […]
Foresight n: one of the parts (aspects) of Prudish Prudence: habit of Seeing beyond the limitations of phallotemporality and consciously participating in the Tidal Timing of Biophilic Creation; habit strengthening a Prude’s power to Realize the future
From Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with […]
This is for Sunflower and the other landdykes I know who are serious about not fouling the drinking water.
From “Anthropology” by Chrystos, published in Lesbian Ethics Dyke Humor Issue (Vol 3 No 3 Summer 1989):
We have been conducting an extensive footnoted annotated indexed & complicated study of the Caucasian culture hereafter to be referred to […]
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