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...like. I thought it would all be savanna and that it would always be unbearably hot. I thought that I would see poverty at every turn, and that nobody would speak English. I thought I would stick out like a sore thumb because of the color of my skin??and on that count, at least, I was right...
...woman surrenders agency over her body, she relinquishes agency over her life. Pig flesh complicates the idea: no amount of makeup will turn “Victoria” or “Violette” into an attractive woman; no back story, however touching, will prevent the skin??s inevitable decay. Maybe Hatry is using Babe’s cousins to say that it’s useless to be a babe. Or maybe she just likes pig. —Staff writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwart@fas.harvard.edu...
...attempt or giving up actual money for the chance to [read it],” Grzecki read aloud. The audience laughed along as Grzecki read the book’s surreal second chapter, which featured the Keezer Cat—who offers to buy Alice’s skin?? and a mustachioed Humpty Dumpty. John B. Owen ’10, another Lampoon officer, then took over and read what he claimed was a historical document he found at Widener Library. The work was called “A Guide for the Freshman of this College?...
...however, those of us who live on the margins act as though we deserve our fate. If prejudice is the greatest source of human tragedy, self-loathing is its most powerful enabler. Our inability to accept ourselves fully as human beings—to become comfortable in our own skin??has sometimes led to very bad behavior. We internalize the fear and loathing directed at us and we re-direct it at ourselves, and each other. In doing so, we lose faith in the very thing that should save and sustain us: our common humanity. History is full...
...Many disapproving fans (“He’s not the same as he was at first.”), one positive fan (“I kind of liked being blasted out of my skin??), following “New England” Folk Festival electric performance of “Maggie’s Farm.” Appropriate “Positively Fourth Street” follows...