Saturday, April 11th, 2009
In my senior year of high school, I took an amazing course called “Men’s Studies.” Some of the questions we tried to answer in this course included: what male stereotypes do we find on television and are they harmful? What is ‘machismo’? What does it mean to be masculine? Who in the class is least [...]
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
pushing on the world
it was invading my space
it refused to budge
Today a man stopped me on the street and told me that he was down on his luck, living in the park across from my apartment. He asked if I had any “scraps” or “pennies,” and I lied and told him that I couldn’t help him out. He looked me straight in the eye and [...]