October 2011
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Reviving My Tumblr
I’m currently in Paris for the 2011-2012 academic year thanks to the wonderful support of one of Harvard’s post-graduate traveling fellowships. The project I proposed has to do with questions of national and social identities in first- and second-generation French immigrants of West African origin. Namely, I’m trying to understand the nature of the all-too-revered notion of...
August 2011
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microaggressions:
During my freshman year of high school, the administrators pulled all of the Asian kids out of class and made us take an English proficiency test. At first we thought it was a joke, but sitting at the desk was a privileged white woman with scantrons who talked to us like we had just arrived in this country. I subsequently cussed her out.
when: high school in california 2004....
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July 2011
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June 2011
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The Coffee Lover's Guide to Tea(via @Lifehacker) →
Coffee is great, but even die-hard coffee lovers might want to give tea a chance. The other beloved warm beverage, tea imparts to its drinkers some formidable health benefits, an extra boost of alertness without the same caffeine slump of coffee, and a considerable variety of choices.
Neil Patrick Harris Rocks The 2011 Tony Awards →
May 2011
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Sigh… then it just got weird, windy and self-indulgent… how disappointing. Where was the critique?
Muslim Women and their White Saviors →
Review: Feminism for Real →
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“To be a strong woman, to be a fierce woman, to be a true woman, to be a leader,...”
– Eve Ensler in the Logo documentary “Beautiful Daughters”
: Positive Effects of Depression →
tamburina:
Sadness, apathy, preoccupation. These traits come to mind when people think about depression, the world’s most frequently diagnosed mental disorder. Yet, forthcoming research in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology provides evidence that depression has a positive side-effect.According to a new…
this is (not) psychology: Existential Depression... →
tamburina:
It has been my experience that gifted and talented persons are more likely to experience a type of depression referred to as existential depression. Although an episode of existential depression may be precipitated in anyone by a major loss or the threat of a loss which highlights…
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Watchb-sama:
Must See Documentary: Taxi Sister By Theresa Traore Dahlberg
Written By: MIM!—With the help of a progressive government initiative supporting female taxi drivers, there are 15 female taxi drivers in Dakar … that’s out of 15,000 taxi drivers. Who’s talking about women’s equity besides Senegal’s government? Promising Swedish/Burkinabe director and producer Theresa Traore Dahlberg is, in...
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WatchDebate about what it means to be black in France
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WatchReally cool documentary about some different aspects of West African life in Paris, and basically what my next year is going to look like. So excited!!
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I finally feel relaxed for the first time in a long, long time… Still have graduation stuff to figure out, and plans for next year need to be set in stone, but at least I know I’ll be in Paris again starting September on an amazing post-grad year-long fellowship, and I’m excited to be able to restart this blog to chronicle my time there.
More (real) updates soon!
April 2011
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May 2009
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Caring For Your Introvert
“Extroverts therefore dominate public life. This is a pity. If we introverts ran the world, it would no doubt be a calmer, saner, more peaceful sort of place. As Coolidge is supposed to have said, ‘Don’t you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?’ (He is also supposed to have said, ‘If you...