I have still not entirely figured out how to reconcile belly dance with feminism. That is, I love it. And it has certainly helped me to make friends with my body. And it’s wonderful to have an activity in your life where striving for mastery is challenging and fun. And there’s this community of women [...]

He: “I still prefer you without makeup.” Me: “Still?” He: “What does that mean?” Me: “Well I thought you’d get used to seeing me in makeup and be like, ‘yeah, this is better.’” He: “Nope.” Me: “But these are the trappings of sex-class submission to a patriarchal culture that benefits you. You don’t find that [...]

I wore my glow-in-the-dark robot t-shirt to work today. I was totally excited to wear it to work, thinking I had a number of coworkers who would appreciate it. But it turns out it’s not appropriate to invite your coworkers to join you in a dark closet to “see my robot light up”. Live and [...]

So busy-busy. I got married almost two weeks ago.  I panicked in the last couple weeks about whether I was going to get that dress as decorated as I wanted it and I recruited some belly dance friends to help me bead and sequin it. So I had two ladies give up several evening for [...]