April 2011
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ges·ture [jes-cher] n./v., -tured, -tur·ing.
[dictionaries are actually quite effective at defamiliarizing the everyday.] –noun  1. a movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that is expressive of an idea, opinion, emotion, etc.: the gestures of an orator; a threatening gesture. 2. the use of such movements to express thought, emotion, etc. 3. any action, courtesy, communication, etc., intended for effect or as a...
Apr 30th
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Apr 30th
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SHEENA IYENGAR on The Art of Choosing Watched this video several weeks ago in my class, Culture, Cognition, and Motivation.  Choice = Agency? Choice = Good decisions? Certainly not. 
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute, be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny thing called life. SARAH KAY of Project V.O.I.C.E. - Doesn’t she just radiate so much energy?  I don’t think I am particularly good with words, hence my music+video posts and minimal writing, but such clips/people/ideas make me want to rethink my plans of being born a roller...
Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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“… the enunciation of politicized identities through race, gender, and...”
– Wendy Brown, States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity. (60).
Apr 25th
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3:33am
me: “I DO READ, SEE??” simone: “No … you stalk.” caught. damn.
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 20th
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whirlwinds of april
at the rate i’m going, i’m going to bleed coffee. 
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 14th
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“BE YOURSELF.”
– mama always said that to me as i was growing up, and i recall sometimes looking back at her, dubiously, as if she had no idea what the hell she was talking about.  i’m so comfortable being weird and being alone and while some people don’t quite understand i think it comes from knowing...
Apr 12th
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Apr 12th
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"Poetry of Stillness, in a Moment Stretched to... →
NYT Dance Review on Eiko & Koma’s “Naked: A Living Installation”  Met Eiko my freshman year, and looking back I’ve realized how the little things I’ve learned in her+Prof. Johnston’s class have manifested in strange, beautiful ways. learning to surrender straddling between remembering forgetting embracing the grotesque i want to move deliciously forever....
Apr 11th
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Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 8th
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Apr 8th
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“For many Americans, it was the fact of Mexicans’ “mongrel”...”
– Laura E. Gomez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. (83-84). What is it about race, that people don’t understand it as a SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION? 
Apr 5th
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cognition
why are people so resistant when faced with the opportunity to think for themselves?
Apr 5th
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Apr 5th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 1st
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