I’ll be speaking on ambition with a voice that I pray is mine, embodying my Asian American Christian woman/friend/wife/mother/daughter/sister/neighbor thing. So as I finish prepping, fretting, and prepping some more (18 minutes is not a lot of time for a woman who grew up in a Ko...
Con Woman, Dancer Or Dominatrix? Frank Is A Librarian With A Deep Romantic Streak. Struck With Love For A Beautiful Foreign Named Miranda (christina Ricci), He Dares To Speak His Feelings And Winds Up In A Whirlwind Of Sexuzl Amour. The Elusive Miranda Preqents Many Faces: She's A Busi...
They are hurting right now. The images on the news and Twitter are wrenching. My veteran friends are remembering those they lost in Afghanistan and thinking this was all a devastating waste. Energy. Lives. Treasure. The contact teams on doorsteps, bringing the news that a young woman is now...
In 1860s America, art training wasn’t an easy thing for a woman to find, especially in a small town like Concord. Victorian society was squeamish about women looking at naked bodies or studying anatomy. Nevertheless, May found a doctor in Boston who offered anatomical drawing classes to wome...
Critics Consensus: Shirkers uses one woman's interrogation of a pivotal personal disappointment to offer affecting observations on creativity, lost opportunity, and coming to terms with the past. Synopsis: In 1992 teenager Sandi Tan shoots Singapore's first road movie with her enigmatic American me...
When you were in China, what was your agenda like? Was it set for you, or could you have some flex time? Our itinerary for teaching was set for us, each teacher was given a mentor/guild from the organization to help with translating, getting around and any other needs we may h...
“We’re thrilled to bring a new touring experience to families across the U.S. and offer this unique live-engagement with the brand,” saidKaty Dickson, president ofAmerican Girl. “Over the past 30 years,American Girl’s beloved characters have become role models — inspiring millions of ...
The Christian communism Noyes envisioned was realized finally in the 1840s and founded upon an institution that he called “complex marriage,” an arrangement by which all exclusivity was dissolved and every man in the community was in a sense married to every woman, and might therefore enjoy th...
Fiona is a beautiful, elegant, graceful, intelligent, witty and charismatic woman, though exceedingly vain, particularly when it comes to aging. She has moments of extreme kindness, for instance, using her power to resurrect a baby that died at birth, but she is also ruthless, exhibiting no ...
Style and meaning—surface and depth—dancing together, emerging through each other. Not flourish—not adornment—but style as sinew, the monists say—making up the body, making the walk of the body possible. In my foreign/postcolonial/woman’s body, I recognize a deep suspicion of attempts ...