January 2011
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Losing and gaining vanity. (Womanhood part...
I went a full week without make-up and everyone still treated me the same.
Then, I chopped off my hair yesterday to make a “Locks of Love” cancer patient wig (except after all these months of enduring heavy hippie hair, surprise!, the stylist said they allegedly do not take hair that’s ever been colored or treated in some way). Now I have hair even shorter than in the mullet...
Unconsciously covered my face in pen while...
And just found out thanks to the guy trying to sell black market Viagra, Easy-bake ovens, the Valley Morning Star ( local newspaper) and “Cutco” knives to our office. Cool.
Why not be utterly changed in the fire?
I sat with two Haitian cousins on the anniversary of the earthquake, explaining to them, with all reluctance, that now that the US was lifting its bar on deportation to Haiti, and they were going to have to face a judge alone. They have no real chance at asylum, but I kept that to myself. Otherwise, a judge would set a precedence to accept an exorbitant amount of displaced individuals in similar...
Just noticed how morbid work is.
My initial scribbled notes in the margin of this report I’m working on:
-FEMICIDE: Translate death=max expression of gender violence quote to Eng.
-*Salvadoran DV impunity examples*— rampant judicial corruption, good descriptive stats on mutilated witnesses
-Gross under-rep. of rape victim services- 1 fxnl temp shelter for ElSal
-Poison common to kill preg wives w/o risk of...