Debbie Nathan

Sex pol, borders, Mexico, Yiddish, my camera

Archive for December, 2007

Subcomandante Marcos: a mask on his face and condoms in his market

CounterPunch just reprinted a fascinating piece by Uruguayan journalist Raul Zibechi about Mexico’s Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer (Street Brigade in Support of Women). It’s part of the Mexican Sex Work Network collective, which works with prostitutes and transvestites. “This has meant transcending the ‘victim’ role and becoming people who want to be [...]

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Doctors and junk food without borders

Been off the blogmobile for a couple weeks due to travel, mostly to the US-Mexico border. I’ll be writing more on that soon. Meanwhile, here are some interesting links.
International bridge, El Paso, TX
First, wonderful work from Feroze Sidhwa, a 25-year-old student at the University of Texas medical school in San Antonio. The US [...]

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Grace Paley, Edward Said, Mao in “Sex and The (Yiddishkeit) City”

Carrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends on SATC were big followers of the wedding announcements in the Sunday New York Times. Who can forget the episode devoted to Carrie’s sturm & drang when news of Mr. Big’s nuptials with someone else appeared in the paper of record?
I dip into Weddings occasionally, but it’s hard to [...]

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