As a holiday gift to myself and readers, I sat down recently to speak to my friend, translator, and Ukrainian feminist, Maria Dmytrieva, who's famous as Mary Xmas in LiveJournal circles. What follows...
At the end of each season of "Survivor," the power shifts to the jury, which is filled with castaways that have been eliminated. Their votes determine who gets selected as the winner of the game. At...
Despite the odds, the Foa Foa four managed to outwit Galu and they are now in charge of the game. Unlike Galu, they stood by each other. As they head into the final days, the question is: at what...
On day thirty, power had clearly gotten to Russell’s head. He decided to tell Mick that he owns an oil company in Houston, which netted him 1.7 million dollars last year. Earlier in the game, if...
I had never even heard of Moon Market. Iqbal Town is several kilometres away from Gulberg, where I live and work, and is a kind of mini-city on its own. I visited there once, to drop a student home,...
This week, “Survivor” returned after a short hiatus for Thanksgiving. After convincing Shambo to vote with them at the last tribal council, the Foa Foa four found themselves in the lead. The...
"Precious," based on the novel Push by Sapphire, tells the tale of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, dark skinned, fat, Black teenager who is a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual...
Despite the advances of modern science, we live in a world that remains captivated by the occult. We have put a man on the moon, cured many diseases that were once deadly, and live in a time of such...
It's an amazing thing, watching a woman's rights activist from my parents' generation in action. The passion that those women had at the height of the women's movement in the 80s when they were...
On this week's episode, going into the merge, the numbers were not in favour of the former members of Foa Foa. Their only hope was to exploit any existing tensions in the former Galu tribe. This...
