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The Big and Little World: Awe, Outrage and Hope
Exploration and commentary on modern life and the relatively little things that make us human in big ways.
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Understanding Suicide.
Understanding Suicide.
Listening to the Logic of those Suffering
Cristina Loughrey
Jun 8, 2018
Jade Eggs, Earthing, and Celebrity Stupidity:
Jade Eggs, Earthing, and Celebrity Stupidity:
A rant on my problems with the appropriation of poorly understood science and big words to create New Age authority.
Cristina Loughrey
May 23, 2018
Touch Heals — Even the Person Who is Not Sick
Touch Heals — Even the Person Who is Not Sick
I am in the elegant Victorian sublet. The naked windows pouring yellow light into the dark winter. Usually I look in the lit windows —…
Cristina Loughrey
Dec 11, 2017
How Urban Art and Bathrooms Fuel Political Hope
How Urban Art and Bathrooms Fuel Political Hope
The antidote to prejudice is empathy. And it’s bred in the city.
Cristina Loughrey
Nov 26, 2017
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Scraps: Over Years & Location, A Lot Stays the Same
Scraps: Over Years & Location, A Lot Stays the Same
Little scraps torn from a journal remind me that some things are recurrent. But the desire, for love and intimacy stay there like the hum…
Cristina Loughrey
Sep 24, 2016
Without a Penis, I Feel Empty & Incomplete
Without a Penis, I Feel Empty & Incomplete
Things that obsessively preoccupy me as a single woman in America
Cristina Loughrey
Oct 13, 2016
Who is really lost in the silence?
Who is really lost in the silence?
It is quiet. Unlike the tranquility of watching the sea through the thick glass window, this quiet shivers the marrow. It abandons me. It…
Cristina Loughrey
Oct 12, 2016
Reflections on Why We Prostitute Rape
Reflections on Why We Prostitute Rape
This is about why rape is hard to write about. Why people get it wrong.
Cristina Loughrey
Sep 3, 2016
How Urban Art and Bathrooms Fuel Political Hope
How Urban Art and Bathrooms Fuel Political Hope
The antidote to prejudice is empathy. And it’s bred in the city.
Cristina Loughrey
Nov 26, 2017
Reflections on Why We Prostitute Rape
Reflections on Why We Prostitute Rape
This is about why rape is hard to write about. Why people get it wrong.
Cristina Loughrey
Sep 3, 2016
Scrawled Notes, Gifts, & Why Flowers Aren’t Stupid
I love gifts. I am not greedy. This is not materially derived. It is not even so much the getting of gifts, as giving them. I feel the…
Cristina Loughrey
Jun 27, 2017
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