Hey, everybody. I’ll be guest blogging here for the next two weeks.
Coincidentally, the timing of this guest blogging stint will expose the somewhat fractured (maybe “varied” is a better word) focuses in my life right now, which currently span a time-zone, language barriers, and a wide array of interests.
For the next week I’ll be blogging from here in Mexico City, where I live for two months out of the year, and where my girlfriend and I write Macha Mexico: A Lesbian Guide to Mexico City. It’s an English language blog meant to provide a more indepth look at dyke life in Mexico City than Lonely Planet can provide and we try to grow it little by little each week. (We also have to update old entries constantly to note which of our favorite venues have been shut down as police crackdowns and gentrification change the queer landscape here in the Distrito Federal.)
After this week I’ll be back in Brooklyn, New York, preparing for my fourth year as a math teacher in a “small” public high school where I am also a “health resource teacher,” a college counselor, and the advisor to an ever-growing gay-straight alliance.
I’m also a burlesque performer, have taught several burlesque workshops here in Mexico City, and just got back from a mini-tour with the burlesque troupe that was formed out of one of those workshops.
The content of my own blog is rarely explicitly political, but I hope to crosspost some interviews I’ve been doing with some interesting queers, feminists, and activists here in Mexico City. (Of course, I have to transcribe and translate them first…) I’m a relatively recent reader of Feministe, so feel free to link to older posts that address similar topics. Also, I apologize in advance for my terrible spelling.
I’ll start by plugging Generación Y, a Spanish-language blog that my girlfriend referred me to and that I’m just starting to read. It’s one of the only blogs being written in Cuba, where internet access is severely restricted. The English language version can be found here, plus a short article that the New York Times did about the role of the internet as a political tool in Cuba.