Analysis on Sherman Alexie’s : The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-time Indian
Book Cover of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The glaring financial disparity between white and other races had been put under the spotlight over the course of the years. Despite the fact that this subject is still an ongoing debate with more than one participating side, it is indisputable that the global economy had been dominated by Whiteness for a considerably long period of time. Subsequently, this wealth gap led to a further disparity in social classification, leaving a contrasting social outlook of those living prosperously and those who do not. Sherman Alexie, through his impeccable storytelling…
According to older people, even one of these things could have drastically changed their lives.
I’ve spent quite a bit of time speaking and working with people in their 30s, 40s and 50s who are concerned about money. How to make more of it. How to keep more of it. A lot of those conversations focus on what they’re doing today and what they should be doing tomorrow to change their situations.
However, I know that there’s an underlying current of regret. …
On Transitioning During A Pandemic
Denver, Colorado doesn’t have the largest queer community in the world, but we do our best. There’s a handful of gay bars, a mid-tier pride parade, and some semblance of a “gayborhood” in Cap Hill that’s trying to hang on in the face of gentrification.
Tracks, a gay nightclub, is one of Denver’s long-standing queer institutions. Its website calls it “Denver’s premiere GLBT Dance Club,” and the ordering of those letters does a good job of telegraphing how Tracks (and most queer clubs, quite frankly) cater predominantly to gay men. But on the first Friday of every month, Tracks holds…
We All Just Love to Hate Successful Women
A few weeks back when I was mindlessly scrolling through Instagram (a habit I am at all times trying to curtail as my screen time notification continues to mock me), I noticed some hubbub about tequila. More specifically, I had noticed a covert social media campaign that was underway — Kylie Jenner posting subtle hits about something coming, some “new-new,” and what lingered in the background of these immaculately well-lit photos was a bottle of alcohol that…didn’t exist. That is — it was a label no one had ever seen before. …
Oh, we’re back to this again? Sigh.
Apparently. Look…an(other) alarming spike in hate crimes against elderly Asians in polite Canada and Seattle society, cosmopolitan Manhattan and Chinese-intensive San Francisco.
Dammit.
I spent my entire life trying not to get singled out, get my ass beat, prove myself to white (and black) people, even other Asians, that I’m okay, I mean well, I don’t mean any harm.
You haven’t lived until a Japanese- and Polynesian-American gang up to throw out racial slurs that have been thrown at them.
Just a few short years ago, I was getting off a bus in…
Where Do We Go From Here?
I have recently been feeling increasingly strong in my femininity. I’ve always considered myself a feminist, and proud to be one, but lately I have felt an increased pride in being a woman. Perhaps it is because I recently finished watching “Mrs. America” on Hulu which led me to purchase and read Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me. In that same online book order, I also bought Betty Friedan’s iconic feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique, which I am currently working through.
Perhaps this enhanced feminist lens through which I am seeing the world is also being born from feelings…
The former President brought up how reparations seem necessary to level the playing field for African-Americans but that he sees why Whites wouldn’t be on board.
Former President Obama spoke about race relations in America with Bruce Springsteen in their new Spotify-exclusive podcast Renegades: Born in the USA. At one point, the pair touched on reparations, where Obama justified the need for them now. He said, “the wealth of this country, the power of this country … not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it … but a large portion of it, was built on the backs of slaves.” This is a huge departure from where Obama stood while President.
Back in 2016, in an Atlantic interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama explained that it was…
Some people feel free to mock aromantics or write them out of existence
Asexual (Ace) and aromantic (Aro). Those concepts were barely recognizable to anyone just a decade or so ago. Now, both ideas are making their way into our cultural conversations. Asexuality got more attention, more quickly. By 2017, enough scientific research and theorizing on asexuality had been published to support a review article. It dispelled early doubts, and concluded that asexuality is a sexual orientation and not, as some skeptics had suggested, a sexual dysfunction. Three years later, in 2020, Angela Chen published her important book, ACE: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex.
“Do you Work for Her?”
My mom was once beautiful, and academically talented. Now, years of chain cigarrette smoking,coke guzzling, bouts of mental illness,unemployment and trauma have caught up to her. When visiting her I clean her house, and then we walk to the convienence store to buy her some more coke. When we get to the counter my mom asks for ciggarettes and the storekeeper asks me if I work for my mom. I am her daughter I reply, and the storekeeper is surprised at the contrast between me and my moms, now disheveled appearance. …
Joe Manchin has a problem with Neera Tanden, but overlooked issues with Sessions, Kavanaugh, and Barr.
Joe Manchin has become a thorn in the side of Democrats ever since the party took over all three branches of government. Since the Presidential election, news organizations have continued to write articles about the power of the centrist Democrat. For example, a recent article by the AP started off with, “A moderate Democratic senator from West Virginia is suddenly one of the most powerful people in Washington.” A quick Google News search of ‘Joe Manchin powerful’ comes back with thousands of articles with headlines like, “Joe Manchin Is The Senator Most Critical to Joe Biden’s Policy Goals,” “Meet Joe…
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