Category Archives: identity

Encounters With Ex-Boyfriends

27th
Jul. × ’10
By Sarah
Meg and I were talking in the car today about meeting ex-boyfriends. We were talking about how unexpected meetings with ex-boyfriends become ways to measure oneself against the passing of time and against former selves, the ones we embodied when we were with _____ . Ways of seeing how much the person we remember [...]
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The Perils And Possibilities Of Revolutionary Tourism

9th
Jun. × ’10
By Sarah
It is hard for me to talk about the Zapatistas without the immediate, cynical self-censor popping up and pointing its wry satiric finger at me. There is so much revolutionary hanging-on taking place in Mexico, and so much of it reeks of that vapid and imperial pat-yourself-on-the-back irony in which wealthy university professors from the North [...]
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Facebook Narratives and High School Reunions

21st
May. × ’10
By Sarah
I got an email the other day about my ten-year high school reunion.  Ten years since Grandview Heights High School, skipping Mr. DiSabado’s gym class every day for two weeks without the buff, classically dense P.E teach ever catching on (just ran right out the side doors during one of the obligatory laps at the [...]
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Of Two Worlds: A Mexican-American Wedding

13th
Apr. × ’10
By Sarah
Susy and I have always shared issues of otherness, but mine are intellectual flirtations, mazes explored intentionally with the constant possibility of escape, whereas hers have been deeply instilled and inescapable since childhood.  Susy is Mexican-American, and has spent her life split between the two countries; speaking Spanish and English, eating menudo in Nogales and [...]
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