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Fotocrônica: Women’s Words

I saw this on the wall of the Churrascuria near my school. I haven’t been here since last week and this must have been posted by the staff over the weekend. Love it. Translation: “We are smart We are caring We are fighters We are delicate, beautiful and sensitive. We are romantic, sensual, and sincere. …

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Category: Journalistic, Socio-PoliticalTag: Fotocrônica, gender, International Women's Day, translation

Invisible Woman

I have stumbled across a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy here at the farm. Case in point: I have cleared by hand over two acres of land, built a garden, pruned fruit trees, scraped the corral clean of manure, trimmed the shrubs by hand with a machete, repaired and laid water lines, cleaned the cistern …

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Category: Nostalgia, Socio-PoliticalTag: culture, culture-shock, family, gender, lessons-learned, rural life

Fotocrônica: Work Gloves

See those thorns the size of effing knitting needles?  That’s a wild lemon tree, which grow all over our property.  Good for caipirinhas at the end of a long day, not so good for those doing the yardwork. It seems everything has thorns here.  Last year started counting thorny and stinging plant varieties as a way to …

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Category: Journalistic, Nostalgia, Socio-PoliticalTag: Blisters, farming, gender, gloves, homesteading, rural life

Ok, I take (some of) it back

Life has a way of dishing out lessons in humility. Not one week after writing about how there were no lesbians anywhere in the Brazilian mainstream media, I watched Assalto ao Banco Central and now feel the need to throw some guilty applause in their direction.  The character of Telma Monteiro (played by Giulia Gam), one of the …

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Category: Journalistic, Socio-PoliticalTag: Assalto ao Banco Central, culture, gender, lessons-learned

Dragging ourselves over the gender line

There she was behind us in line at the bus station, or at least I assumed she preferred being termed “she.” Shoulder-length hair that seemed hers not a wig, hands moving in fluttering movements (really, where do they get that? how many women actually move like that?), eyebrows plucked within a centimeter of their lives, clothes a …

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Category: Socio-PoliticalTag: culture, gay culture, gender, transgender

Sexing the Banana*

The epitome of the feminine, the papaya, can only be planted by women. Heck, in some parts of the Spanish-speaking world it is another word for vulva, which in my opinion beats beaver any day. (By the way, I could talk at length at how both Spanish and Portuguese are far better a describing the …

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Category: Comedic, Journalistic, Socio-PoliticalTag: banana, culture, gender, papaya

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