Bill Bramhall’s cartoon on Trump’s steel tariffs (3.7.18) I was struck by Donald Trump’s absurd & contradictory comments on steel tariffs and China and was inspired to write this #ResistTrump limerick: Donald Trump wants to hit back at China While he grabs some poor woman’s vagina; His tariffs on steel Show no ‘art of the […]
Hungarian satirical map of 1887 (Európa béke-mappája) I’ve loved maps since as long as I can remember and I was intrigued by this satirical map from 1887; I posted it to Facebook and a nice Hungarian translated the long poem at the bottom for me. Gábor says, “it is heavy and somewhat outdated language (and spelling). The […]
Paris: rue Rambuteau (4ème) France 2015: Paris & Versailles I lived in Paris from January through June 1992 but did not have the opportunity to return to the City of Light until May 2015; my week in Paris was a trip down memory lane, bringing back a flood of memories from the six months I […]
Pillow Talk: transgender identity, people of color & intersectionality by Pauline Park Kyoung H. Park is a Korean American playwright who emigrated to the United States from Chile, where he was born and raised; he is the first Korean playwright from Latin America to be produced and published in the united States; he is the […]
2017 LGBT year in review by Pauline Park 2017 was a hell of a year and that’s using the politest language I can think of. The year that just passed was dominated by Donald Trump, who has loomed large for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people and especially for LGBT activists since he was […]
2017 year in review Pauline Park 2017 may have been a disastrous year for the country, with the election of Donald Trump, but for me personally, it was a year of progress and growth. Trump’s election and new administration dominated the news throughout 2017, but happily, neither had any direct impact on my life. Activism […]
Joan of Arc & the uses & misuses of history: LGBT/queer historiography by Pauline Park The writing of transgender and queer history is an important component of the project of transgendering the academy, but it is one fraught with peril, conceptual and otherwise. The peril is particularly apparent when activists engage in the writing of […]
Norway: the trip of a lifetime to the land of my father’s Viking ancestors by Pauline Park Norway has always had a special place in the imaginary of my mind; it is first of all the land of my father’s Viking ancestors; it is secondly one of the most progressive countries in the world, […]
Steven Salaita and the Quagmire of Academic Freedom BY JAKE FLANAGIN New York Times OCTOBER 2, 2014 11:49 AM Op-Talk Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune, via Getty Images Steven G. Salaita says the University of Illinois destroyed his career. The Palestinian-American professor was invited to teach in the university’s American Indian studies program earlier this year, but the […]
Queens Pride House, the transgender support group and the diversity of gender identity by Pauline Park I have been involved with Queens Pride House since I worked with several other members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community of Queens to co-found the organization in 1997. Since 2012, I have served as coordinator of […]
DNC follies: a Latino, a Muslim & a transgendered Zionist enter a room… Babs Casbar Siperstein’s expulsion from the Democratic National Committee is a tale told of an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying something, though what precisely requires considerable explanation. Babs Siperstein has been described as ‘the highest-ranking trans person in Democratic Party’ […]
Europe 2017: Norway Iceland Spain I spent five weeks in Europe in 2017, two in Norway, two in Spain and one in Iceland; it was the longest trip of my life, exceeding even the four weeks I spent in Korea in June and July 2015; these are some of my photos of the trip and […]