Op-Ed & Interviews
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My Same-Sex Parents, a Proud Secret
It was 1989. I was 15, a junior at a public high school in Southern California and the newly appointed editor of my school newspaper. Our advisor challenged the staff with a call for public debates of controversial issues on our opinion pages.
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On Unreliable Narrators
I have been thinking a lot about the idea of the “unreliable narrator” these days, and what it might mean for us ethnographers, careful raconteurs of others’ stories, intertwined as they are with our own
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Meditations on Death, Presence, Practice
According to Tibetan tradition, when we die we enter into the bardo, a liminal realm between death and rebirth. For the 49 days after our body returns to the elements from whence it arose
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