A Google search on Egyptian stick fighting offers this phrase and a translation: “the art of being straight and honest through the use of stick.” Is this a valid source? Where is the second source for confirmation?
The colloquial use of vagina extends the anatomical parameters to include the vulva. It is not in keeping with anatomical glossaries or the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines the vagina as “the membranous canal leading from the vulva to the uterus in women and female mammals.” I have elected to initially use the technically correct vulva and then revert to common usage.
David W. Dunlap, “Column One: Changes,” The New York Times, October 9, 1986. “The Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation has fashioned many blazing extravaganzas. But the Pussycat remains a favorite of Tama Starr, the company's executive vice president, ‘because it embodies the Bauhaus ideal of form following function.’”
Apophany (Greek apo (away from) + phaenein to show revelation); Aaron Mishara, “Klaus Conrad (1905–1961): Delusional Mood, Psychosis and Beginning Schizophrenia,” Schizophrenia Bulletin no. 36 (2010): 9–13.
Michael Shermer, “Patternicity: Finding Meaningful Patterns in Meaningless Noise,” Scientific American, December 1, 2008.
“Simply, the end-user is the consumer of a good or service, but with a slight connotation of know-how innate in the consumer. In a literal sense, the term ‘end-user’ is used to distinguish the person who purchases and uses the good or service from individuals who are involved in the stages of its design, development and production.” See: Read More: End-User: →. See: “Follow us: Investopedia on Facebook.” A sticky note to readers: Would you say that The Final Girl operates as the ideological book end of the End User? Does the Final Girl belong to the pre-digital world and we are only haunted by her? Is the End User gender fluid?
“ ... A lady come out once who offered to bring her Geiger counter with her so we could see if we were encountering fallout in our trenches, but I decided that I just didn't really want to know, as I was still going to have to be in trenches … ” Personal correspondence with the author’s aunt, June 18, 2018.
In the same conversation with my aunt, she mentions that NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) was instituted in 1991. After NAGPRA, swift changes in practices and attitudes regarding First Nations graves and sacred objects were implemented in the field.
See a summary of Section 106 on the Advisory Council on Historical Preservation’s website: →.
Solastalgia is defined as the “loss of solace from the landscape” in the abstract for: D. Eisenman et al, “An Ecosystems and Vulnerable Populations Perspective on Solastalgia and Psychological Distress After a Wildfire,” Ecohealth, vol. 12 no. 4 (December 2015), 602-10, accessed from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26302957. See also: H. Stain et al, “Solastalgia: the Distress Caused by Environmental Change,” Psychiatry no. 15, suppl. 1: S95-8 (2007).
See, for example, the myth of The Pleiades or The Seven Sisters.
According to the Institute of Medicine in 1999, 1.5 million to 2 million US women had by then been outfitted with breast implants. Institute of Medicine, Safety of Silicon Breast Implants (The National Academies Press, 1999): →.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines a brownfield as “real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant.” Brownfields, however, can be located anywhere and can be quite small. See: “Overview of the Brownfields Program,” on the EPA’s website →.
Dow Corning Medical Grade 360 fluid was used extensively in Las Vegas and resulted in complications. At least 12,000 women (some have estimated as many as 40,000 women) had breast injections in Las Vegas by 1976 when the practice became a felony under Nevada State law. Practitioners reportedly charged $800 to $2,000 for a series of injections in 1966, according to Safety of Silicone Breast Implants. Breast injections were banned in Nevada prior to the banning of nuclear testing.
William Burroughs, The Soft Machine (Paris: Olympia Press), 56.
Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Freedom, CA: Crossing Press, 1982)
Lorde, Zami, 126.
Bourneville and Regnard, Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière, (1879–1880), 19.
Spelman College website, “About Us”: “Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, we became Spelman College in 1924. Now a global leader in the education of women of African descent, Spelman College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.”→. Side note: A smaller Audre Lorde collection is also housed at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies in Germany at the Free University of Berlin, where Lorde was a Visiting Professor of African American Literature and Creative Writing in 1984. See →.
They are found amongst scores of poems and sketchbooks, articles and books read, syllabi for courses taught by Lorde, conferences attended, reviews of her work, publications of her work, translations of her work, drafts, her diaries, and audio reels.
Because I locate the clippings in Lorde’s archive I sort Dusty’s demand to be killed through Lorde’s evocation of analysis based on difference. Each factor reorganizes Dusty’s assertion—be it qualified as the demand of a white woman, white lesbian woman, white southern lesbian woman, or white southern poor lesbian woman. When is which killed for which reason? Later, Ellis’ white privilege activates as she cycles through, and survives, a series of interfaces with the law including a standoff with police while holding senior citizens hostage and charges of domestic abuse against Ellis.
Timothy Taylor, The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death (Boston: Beacon Press, 2005).
In the Big Smear, as turn-of-the-century hobos called NYC, there may be workers’ or paupers’ or runaways’ graves, or now just their compressed anti-form, located under a new museum or its fresh wing; can spirits rise up and through the white box, roiling the overlying economic surface that scooped them out? Might they arrange powerful donors in a pyramid in the air—like the spectral arrangement of chairs on a table like in Spielberg’s Poltergeist (1982) ? No, it’s up to us to introduce our rich to Hell.
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