Entries from July 2007

July 30, 2007

The Invitation

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 [...]

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. [...]