Fugitive, for eight woman-only performers in checkered dresses with bell flairs and, along with a Wizard-of-Oz-Munchkin esthetic, something of the chaotic Shadoks cartoon to them – troubling, droll, grotesque and erotic. Fugitive, a performance that is almost a dance, borrows heavily from ...
The Buddha’s eyebrow Wat Ounalomis another temple with a long history. The “Temple of the Eyebrow Hair” was first built beside the Tonlé Sap in the 15th Century to enshrine a sacred relic from the brow of the historical Buddha. The modern temple, as the center point of Cambodian Budd...
Janet Catherine Berlo, “Creativity and Cosmopolitanism: Women’s Enduring Traditions,” inIdentity by Design: Tradition, Change, and Celebration in Native Women’s Dresses, Emil Her Many Horses, ed. (New York, NY: HarperCollins in association with Smithsonian Institution, 2007), 107, 120. Willi...
The Prude She doesn’t drink. She doesn’t smoke. She doesn’t curse. She doesn’t stay out late on weeknights. She works as a secretary for an insurance company and has a collection of stuffed animals littered all over her bed. She dresses like Diane from Cheers and insists on knowin...
Buttons on Native American dresses, shirts. leggings and moccasins were originally of bone, shell, stone and other natural materials. In the mid 1800’s, a few Navajo began to learn the art of silversmithing from Mexican plateros. To learn more on that, read my article Where did Navajo si...
I would never do that now. What if I look stupid? I wore the most ridiculously bold things-- vintage neon green and pink Hawaiian print dresses. I didn't constantly take the temperature of the room. It just was. That's the person I sold out to become this person. ...
<<<This terrific poem brought back a vivid memory from my own elementary school years. In 4th grade (or thereabouts) we were taught to make candles by dipping our wicks (ok, there's a vulgar image for you) into a big vat of melted wax. We'd file into the school kitchen, dip, and...
March 24, 2016 Happy Easter everyone! My daughter doesn’t go anywhere these days. She is two and she is already developing her own sense of fashion! Right now she is on a “princess” trend so she is all about dresses and hair bows. When I made this Bunny hair bow for her she ...
Fugitive, for eight woman-only performers in checkered dresses with bell flairs and, along with a Wizard-of-Oz-Munchkin esthetic, something of the chaotic Shadoks cartoon to them – troubling, droll, grotesque and erotic. Fugitive, a performance that is almost a dance, borrows heavily from ...
They put them in the back of wagons or made them walk behind their horse all the way to the boarding school, leaving their mothers wringing the hems of their dresses in grief. My Elder teacher told me this: Grandma used to say that after they rounded up Momma and the other kids and ...