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  • Politics is Poetry is Personal

    “Everyone is familiar with the slogan “The personal is political” — not only that what we experience on a personal level has profound political implications, but that our interior lives, our emotional lives are very much informed by ideology. We oftentimes do the work of the state in and through our interior lives. What we…

  • #himthough

    In my last post I spoke about the #metoo movement, but I didn’t quite give insight to my personal story.  Like many women out there, I have more than one I could tell.  I’ve had the unfortunate experience falling into a pattern of abusive relationships.  Some men were verbally abusive with hot tempers that grew,…

  • #metoo

    “Me Too” was a phrase that started in 2006 when Tarana Burke, a social activist and community organizer, used it in a campaign to empower women of color who had experience sexual abuse.  In 2017 Alyssa Milano popularized the phrase when she used it in a hashtag to draw attention to sexual harassment and assault. …

  • Head In the Cloud

    Sometime ago at my son’s birthday party I met another tech savvy mom and we started talking about our careers.  We had a lot in common.  She use to be in the at theater tech, but somehow miraculously found herself now working in the lucrative field of Compliance in the Cloud.  I had background in…

  • Still Here

    So I’m still here.  Still working at the same dead end job.  Still trying to get out.  It’s just crazy how women are speaking out more about inequality, and how men are still moving ahead.  The “boy’s club” has not been phased.  Institutions, much like the one I work for, still give lip service to…

  • The Man Who Spoke Horrors

    It has been many years since she met the man who of spoke horrors.  Pathos was in his past while his name goes unremembered like the numbers on his skin, a shame I cannot recall it.  He was a guest in our junior high school English class, recounting the hell of the Holocaust that bore…

  • Digression to Milk

    Books and fire don’t mix        Together they ignite              Paper chips into flames                   From once animated trees                        Who have lost their bark   The books bark back…

  • Ode to Candle

    Tire toil and tire Weary oil and fire Come to early day Wax to wax away In darkness comes the light Messiah to the sight Fast in flux it may Dance in disarray It has worn the flame.

  • Rise For Climate March

    On Saturday, September 8, 2018, I participated in the Rise for Climate March in San Diego with the intent to send a powerful message to our representatives.  The streets were filled with human rights activists, students, families, and faith communities fighting for climate justice to protect our air, water, and land.  We gathered at City…

  • Fear and Peace

    I read an argument the other day when a friend of mine quoted an intro to a song, “We can’t have world peace until three people can simultaneously look each other in the eye”. There was plea for understanding and peace, and another individual responded with a bleak “might makes right” attitude, accepting the notion…