I haven’t been back to New Orleans in two years. It’s a damn sin, and I’m glad I could correct it this March. The weather was cold and overcast, but not too much had changed. Here’s some photos from around town — a few more blog posts to come, most likely. I’m thinking about millennial […]
Author: Faine Greenwood
Menstrual Huts Aren’t So Bad, or Why Cultural Relativism Drives Me Crazy
What Life is Like When Getting Your Period Means You Are Shunned – Jezebel A woman travels to Nepal to investigate the custom of chaupadi, wherein menstruating women are made to sleep in small, often-snake-infested huts. Even worse, women are at risk of being raped when they sleep in these isolated locations, and the stigma […]
Why Paintball is Awesome
Last weekend, I shot little balls full of multi-colored goo at people I don’t personally know. There was lots of screaming, and shouting, and ducking behind obstacles and convenient hiding places. In other words, I was playing paintball, a practice more commonly associated with twelve year old boys and emotionally frustrated rednecks than with young […]
Not in New Orleans, But Listening to This
I would like to inform you that if you are in New Orleans right now, I think you suck. Anyway, here’s a blog post that is just my playlist tonight — which would be an utterly pedestrian and slightly drippy night in Palo Alto. One re-evaluates one’s life choices. Can’t get away without this one. […]
I Drive to Half Moon Bay A Lot
I drive to Half Moon Bay a lot, and I take pictures of landscapes. My one complaint is that it’s still too damned cold this time of year. Otherwise? Perfect. I don’t know these people, but they’re cute. Weathered rocks, which are always appealing to me. Wistful. Paddle boarders and using vignetting to compensate for […]
Thailand’s Woes – UN Dispatch
Thailand’s Woes – UN Dispatch At least thirty-five Thais were wounded on Saturday, Feb 22nd after gunmen attacked an antigovernment rally in Trat province, including a five year old girl. Bangkok fared poorly as well: 12-year-old boy and a 40-year-old woman were killed after a bomb attack at an anti government rally, held at […]
The Koke Bale Harvest Ceremony in Flores
Men in elaborately beaded costumes are seated regally around a torch that burns from pork fat. A boiled, off-yellow chicken sits on the altar table, and dogs sneak around the doorways, waiting. I am watching from just inside the door, out of the rain, and I am wearing a terrifically ugly Panasonic-branded poncho. This is […]
Don’t Expect a Cambodian Spring – UN Dispatch
Don’t Expect a Cambodian Spring – UN Dispatch Prominent Cambodian human rights activist Ou Virak came to Stanford to speak last week, and his stance on the possibility of a political “spring” in politically tense Cambodia is clear: not likely. “I don’t think a spring in Cambodia will happen, nor do I think it’s […]
The Time I Dreamed of Revolution
When I was in my early teens I was very interested in the notion of revolution, in the abstract way of children who have been exposed to too much literature. I was a fan of Kerouac and had been subjected to the Communist revolutions of the 20th century in my mildly cracked sixth grade class […]
Pay and Gender in Silicon Valley: It’s Bad, Folks
Gender gap: Men getting paid more than women in Silicon Valley SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Silicon Valley may have a progressive reputation, but as data crunched by the researchers behind the 2014 Silicon Valley Index shows, it’s decidedly old-fashioned when it comes to the gender gap in pay. Men who hold graduate or professional degrees […]