“Antonio” was visiting a small Oregon Coast tourist town in 1993 when he heard a man shouting to him out of nowhere. Alarmed, he quickly realized the stranger spoke to him in Spanish. “Trabajas? Trabajas?” the man yelled awkwardly, race-walking to catch up with him. “You work? You work?” Antonio, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, lived [...]
Written Off {Originally published in GEEZ Magazine, Spring 2013 [The Feminist Issue]: http://www.geezmagazine.org/magazine/article/written-off/} If I were to describe to you my most interesting, mature female friends, I would tell you they are emotionally intelligent, open-hearted and compassionate, honest, insightful and finely attuned to the subtleties of domination. They often laugh, but do not use humour [...]
“Antonio” was visiting a small Oregon Coast tourist town in 1993 when he heard a man shouting to him out of nowhere. He was alarmed until he realized the stranger spoke to him in Spanish. “Trabajas? Trabajas?” the man yelled awkwardly, race-walking to catch up with him. “You work? You work?” Antonio, an undocumented Mexican [...]
San Marco Convento, Florence is a simple cathedral by Florentine standards, shadowy but for shards of light through high windows, minimally adorned in geometric black and white. Despite the influx of tourists, the chapel almost shudders with stillness and, unlike many Florentine cathedrals, calls people to worship. You see them kneeling at prayer benches [...]
In their Summer 2008 issue, GEEZ Magazine held a contest soliciting "30 sermons you would never hear in church." My submission was chosen among the 30, though it is more of a "non-sermon," as the title makes clear... "A non-sermon" by Tricia Gates Brown My weekly church attendance started when I was three years old [...]