Vibrant Physicality

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What does health feel like? This question is challenging, especially if you are trying to be specific. According to S. van Hooft, a Dutch sociologist who never uses his or her full name, health is an enigma. It is ‘a state of being which is absent from consciousness and experienced only in its negation by disease and injury.’ I think, however, that a perception of health can be present immediately after an illness is over. Continue reading →

Choreographed Failure

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The video screen shows a nerdy 30-something white man wearing dark pants and loafers, anxiously standing alone on a football field. Suddenly he starts running away, quickly and awkwardly. The viewer soon sees why, for the unathletic loner is being chased by a young male football player in full protective gear. The pursuer easily catches up with his prey and mercilessly sacks him. Continue reading →

Oh Shit, Am I a Third Wave Feminist?

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In 1968 feminist activists protested against the Miss America Pageant, throwing the accoutrements of oppressive femininity–including false eye lashes, girdles, cosmetics, and maybe even a bra–into trash cans. They refrained from setting fire to them, however, because of the bylaws designed to protect Atlantic City’s wooden boardwalks. Continue reading →

Baking as a Political Strategy

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I spent all weekend baking and cooking. And I mean ALL weekend; I went organic food shopping on Friday night, and then to the local markets and specialty shops on Saturday. I think I was in the kitchen for about 8 hours on Saturday, watching the fourth season of Dexter–so good despite the family theme–while recreating some of the dishes I had eaten in France: ratatouille, wine-soaked fennel, crespeou, and cassis creme brulee, to name only a few. I loved using that mini-blow torch to melt the vergeoise sugar while shouting ‘fire!,’ ‘fire!’ like Beavis on Beavis and Butthead,  Continue reading →