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...With ‘Middlesex,’ I was writing about a character who was very different from me,” he said. The main character, Cal, has a genetic mutation and is intersex. “I had to find connections to my own life to make him seem credible so I invested Cal with details about me—he grew up in Detroit where I grew up and was born the year I was born. I needed an autobiographical ground to build this fictional narrative...
...years and I’m now doing it. I’m having such difficulty. The passage just gets shorter and shorter—maybe it will disappear altogether. It’s just so hard to write about yourself—easier to imagine another life because then everything has equal weight. This is why I don’t trust memoirs—I believe they need fictionalizing to write...
...Feminism is becoming a lot more visible on campus—look at these people from all different walks of life who have come out as feminists for this exhibit,” said Boianjiu, who added that she hopes the various notions of feminism expressed will increase discussion and awareness of feminist issues. “The exhibit gave RUS a chance to reach out to the amazing diversity of people at Harvard and learn how those people perceive the things we’re passionate about...
...Lakota warriors during battle. “Lakota think of warfare as unfolding as a storm—building in intensity,” McLaughlin says. “When that energy reached a certain pitch, [the warrior’s] amulets [representing this bond] would spring to life... opening the passage to the spirits.” Thunder Hawk agreed, noting that the Lakota people draw on these spirits to help them in both the rage of war and quotidian life...
Hence, there is Dan’s miraculous transformation from a borderline autistic into a Wall Street whiz who is also the life of Beth’s book club. (It’s a girls-only book club, but this film is far too clever to be derailed by such trivialities as believability.) Similarly, Beth trades men like Daniel trades personalities. It seems Tommy’s job keeps him too busy to hang out every single second of their screen-time, and so naturally she gravitates towards the only other male character in the story...