As much as I slam Big Media for its endless tyranny of pop culture force-feeding, it has further developed a mastery within my repertoire of emotional survival: learning to learn from everything. Even as a cautious consumer, I am still a consumer. As much as I hate pop culture, it is still part of my […]
Author: Lisa
The Alchemist
I find myself, at 1am, writing with bleary eyes. My contacts have dried out but I still won’t take them out to soak for the night. Adonis sleeps in our new home on the couch, falling into a quiet dream during the Colbert report. It’s the first time we’ve had cable and he’s drinking it […]
Always Gendering
In my travels to the west coast, I traveled to the most indulgent city EVVVVERRRR, Las Vegas. Despite my first time luck at the slots, I was more interested in the surrounding images. My feminist camera clicked clicked clicked to make the seemingly unknown connections between images, power, and gender for the common gambler. The […]
Always Gendering
In unraveling the mystery of gender roles and understanding the impact of imaging through cultural messages, I took pictures of a few of my findings in Vegas. Roll money and gender, power and sex, pleasure and alcohol and you have the most sexualized images for consumers. It’s not news that the sexualization of women is […]
Reunion
I am in California for a 30 year reunion with my family. I can’t blog right now. I’m too busy laughing and concentrating on my roots. Mabuhay.
My Bridge with Gloria
I wrote this several months ago after reading portions of This Bridge Called My Back. I sit on a quiet evening, at a white desk with a light, transparent curtain filtering out the summer sun with the scent of strawberries on my breath. In this space, I realize the world is imperfect. I am not, […]
I’m Not a Slacker, Just Extremely Transient
As you can tell, I am going through what most would call a transition. I would call it a neck breaking rollercoaster of deep seeded life changes. Everything hurts. I am leaving for more travels for the next 12 days and my blogging likely will reflect that. Foolishly, I have underestimated the fatigue associated with […]
Transition’s Velocity
Transition’s Velocity
Tomorrow is my last day of work and I am unprepared for it. For as keen as I am to move on, that doesn’t mean I want to leave it a mess for my successor. While my travels and exhaustive job ‘n moving process continue, art delivers much therapeautic relief lately. My new photoproject, “Transition’s […]
Carnival of Radical Action III
A special edition that covers the Allied Media Conference is being hosting at No Snow Here. Lots of terrific links and, is it possible for MORE inspiration to flowing from one weekend in Detroit? Absofreakinglutely. This only confirms what we all know in the deepest of our human hearts: change is possible. Go. Read. Now.