Torches. Double-ended, many-branched like candelabra, mounted on hula hoops. Men and women dancing, and a single drum beating time. Lithe bodies silhouetted by lights blinking off the East River; a subway snaking across the Williamsburg Bridge in the distance.
I half thought they'd vanish if I approached, but a man with a gentle voice and waxed moustaches told me they're the Empire Fire Collective, and they're working toward taping an audition to perform at Burning Man.
I was walking the dog, only a set of keys in my pocket: no camera. But look here, and look here -- if they can be photographed, they must be real, and not just a midsummer night's dream?
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Last night I had the strangest dream I've ever had before: I dreamed the world had all agreed to put an end to war.
Heide Estes
When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.
Kimberlè Crenshaw
Professor of English at Monmouth University in New Jersey, environmental activist, disability blogger, parent. Find me @1greenblogger or on Facebook.
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- Doug Tallamy, Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
- Erving Goffman, Stigma
- Frank Herbert, Dune
- Melissa Terras, ed. Defining Digital Humanities
- Jeffrey J. Cohen, ed. Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green
- David P. Clark, Germs, Genes, and Civilization
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
- François Grosjean, Bilingual: Life and Reality
- J. Jack Halberstam, Gaga Feminism
- Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
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