November 27th, 2007
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt: This is almost a collection of intertwined short stories about several middle-class white straight women in Southern California who are struggling with sexuality and relationships. It’s not overtly feminist, but does an excellent job of exploring the experiences of heterosexual women attempting to […]
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Amy's Brain Today
February 26th, 2007
One of my major, though heretofore unstated, goals in creating and maintaining this blog is the dissolution of stereotypes. I post pictures of myself, not out of narcissism, but because mainstream media almost never provide images of regular fat women going about their regular unexceptional business. I post pictures of cats and flowers […]
January 20th, 2007
…I know this about identity politics (at least the versions I learned and lived within): We messed up, at the beginning, first by choosing to reify identities as they were already defined in the world, and then by describing these identities as if they were inherent to us in some way instead of as […]