This is my return, my attempt to resurrect this space – after falling out of touch while in Dubai over a year ago, I have made a lot of changes in my life – and by now I can say they were mostly for the better.
As far as the past year and a half goes… I completed my MA in Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in December of 2008 and returned to Dubai for this past summer to continue/complete the field work we had started last time. (I’ll be talking about Dubai in some upcoming posts.) I was accepted to the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health for an MPH degree, and am currently in the middle of my first semester. I think it has been my coursework at Columbia that has really inspired me to return here at this blog, because the program I am in is called Sociomedical Sciences, and as much as I love what I am learning, I miss the specific angle of Women’s Studies/Gender Studies and really feel a need to have an outlet for that kind of material.
There will be more (many) upcoming posts, but in the meantime I wanted to share some links to articles I have been reading:
Are there asexuals among us? The possibility of a fourth sexual orientation.
From Bangkok to Berlin, hard times hit the sex trade.
Jay Smooth and hipster racism (video). – transcript can be found here (in comments).
