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Oscars in Memoriam

March 7, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

Catching segments of the Oscars this past Sunday I was struck by the very brief mention of the assistant camera woman who recently lost her life on set after being hit by an oncoming train. After the various names of stars and Academy members who had lived long lives with prosperous careers seeing the name of this 27-year old woman who senselessly died on set seemed particularly poignant. Today I read the Hollywood Reporter article How Sarah Jones Lost Her […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, women

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Feet to the Stars

March 4, 2014 by William Eaton

One of my favorite Sylvia Plath poems is actually short and sweet. It’s called “You’re,” and it is basically a silly love poem. Here is the first stanza: Clownlike, happiest on your hands, Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled, Gilled like a fish. A common-sense Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode. Wrapped up in yourself like a spool, Trawling your dark as owls do. Mute as a turnip from the Fourth Of July to All Fools’ Day, O high-riser, my little loaf. […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

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Tips for Sex Therapy?

March 1, 2014 by William Eaton

Since I’ve made my living slinging drinks at a bar for years now, I have found the most interesting ways to slip commentary about gender and sexuality, topics I enjoy discussing, into an evening of martinis and well whiskey. Despite the many taboos associated with these topics, most bar patrons are surprisingly eager to share their opinions, whether on the ethics of pornography, or perspectives on monogamy. After the year that it took me to write my thesis, all of […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: sexuality

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Not making money in movies

February 28, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

I read an article today on the wonderful world of internships in the New York Times – Millennnials Feel Trapped in a Cycle of Internships with Little Pay and No Job Offers. I have read many an article and heard many an argument regarding the twenty-first century internship dilemma. Who can intern after college without having some sort of support from their family? Once again limiting opportunities to those with money and family connections, not only in terms of family […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: capitalism, film, New York Times

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The Incurable Disease

February 27, 2014 by William Eaton

From Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski: A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our doorstep once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable. A renowned traveler and award-winning writer, Kapuscinski (1932 – 2007) is one […]

Categories: Tucker Cox, ZiR • Tags: Herodotus, Richard Kapuscinski, travel

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Salinger and Other Authors We’d All Like to Know

February 26, 2014 by William Eaton

I’m reading about seven or eight things at the moment, some I need to read and others I simply desire. Books are good friends in the way that they are there when you need them, whether it is to read them in their entirety or simply to open them and find a passage that moves you—a long conversation or a quick check-in. Nothing else can move you like a piece of art. One of the books I’m reading at the […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: J.D. Salinger, Oscar Wilde

The Difference

February 25, 2014 by William Eaton

Most of the poems I’ve read that touch upon spirituality do so with reverence and a prominent bow. But Charles Simic’s “The Old Word” is refreshing because it communicates the vastness of the soul while still managing to be entertaining. Its poetic language is decipherable, crystalline, earthly. Yet just beyond the flowing syllables lies an unknowable substance that beckons you to the other side. Here is the entire transcription of “The Old Word”: I believe in the soul; so far It hasn’t […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR

The “P” Word: Final Reflections (V)

February 24, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Mediated Pornography: Final Reflections (V) You don’t get to read much about Margaret Grebowicz’s personal stand on pornography in her book Why Internet Porn Matters. A committed philosopher herself, Grebowicz prefers to sit at the margins of the discussion and bring different perspectives into conflict. Her last chapter, “Pornography, Norms, and Sex Education,” is perhaps the only one to feature a strong personal and political view. In it, Grebowicz asks whether Internet pornography might, in fact, have a didactic impact: One significant […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: education, gender, law, philosophy, pornography, sexuality, technology

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Bystander Intervention

February 22, 2014 by William Eaton

Changing the Culture Around Sex and Alcohol Michael Winerip’s article “Stepping Up to Stop Sexual Assault” was featured in the New York Times Education Life insert on February 9. It should come as no surprise to hear talk of rape and sexual assault on college campuses, as they have been abuzz with such talk for the past year, and it has been on the tongues of many a politician recently. I personally, at the nudging of a colleague, have been […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: drinking, New York Times, rape, sexuality, youth

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