This used to be on my fridge in one of my apartments in Detroit. My friend Colette carries it with her to wherever she calls home. I used to read it every morning when it was quiet, before everyone else got up and I had to go battle it out at work. I found it [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 29, 2007
I Heart Storytellers
I am probably the last person in America to do so, but I started reading the Harry Potter books last week. I saw the fifth movie a couple weeks ago with a good friend of mine who was appalled that I had yet to read a single word of the novels. I got [...]
July 23, 2007
Detroit/Highland Park Water News
I screened “Water Wars” in the Bronx on Saturday to an audience of about 40 folks from across the country. It was well received and I was asked to send out more information about what was up with the water situation in Detroit and HP. While collecting URL’s, I came across this article [...]
July 23, 2007
Passing
It’s strange to me that I would be going through this experience moving from the Midwest out to the East Coast and not vice-versa, but for the first time in six years, I have been spending a significant amount of my time passing as straight.
This feels very weird. I have been lesbian or queer, [...]
July 8, 2007
Radical Teachers are Rad
As I’m beginning to settle in here in Brooklyn, I have been doing all those things you do when you first move somewhere:
find a job: done.
Find a home: I just got an apartment secured today! It’s with a fabulous, fierce female from Lansing, Mich (awesome!) who is also a NYC Teaching Fellow. [...]
