Can Dialectics Smash the Patriarchy?

Jura screened “Can Dialectics Break Bricks” on last Friday. Nothing worked. The projector didn’t work, the space wasn’t set up in time, and there was general miscommunication in the air. Trying to help was basically volunteering for a futile excercise, some snide comments and otherwise silence. There was dangerous furniture moving and a total lack [...]

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A Meritorious Result

I managed to score a 74 in contract, one of the most notorious subjects in the course. I think they made it much much easier than last year, where the attrition rate was much too high (and the exam paper gave everyone nightmares for months). Of all the subjects to pass, contracts is the best. [...]

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Bloodsisters

My Keeper arrived in the mail this week, on the day my period finished. I’m relly excited about trying it out next month. This is a new sensation – being excited about menstruation! Usually, its a sleepless night of back ache followed by walking zombie-like around the sanitary isle of the supermarket wondering “which tampon [...]

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Joy

I’ve been in this mass of feeling – all the newness, possibility and sudden plain sailing of life just makes me so happy. There are things to analyse, there are fights to fight and loves to love, books to read and shmoozing to shmooze, but its nothing I can’t handle, and I feel that direction [...]

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Grrr!

I’m a bad and angry woman and I will die lonely. That’s what happens to angry women, they die alone because all their friends and lovers desert them for sweeter pieces.

Its not just that I am angry, its that I will express my anger and not turn it inwards where it eats at me. [...]

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Hite, not-politics and men

I’m liking having men in my life again. I used to like them when I was a child, perhaps because the realms of knowledge and libertinism were open to them in a way they never are to women. So there are men in my life again, and it makes me ecstatic in a way, especially [...]

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Holding Pattern

I’m in the holding pattern of DOOM for law students. They let you have just enough of a break to make you want to come back doing a triple load. You forget the moments of shrill terror the night before the exam, and the all-nighters pulled to get assessments in on time.

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