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Edith Rodriguez memorial photoI posted a little bit on this on Cypher&Syllable last week, but it’s time to listen more closely. The original 911 recording and some transcription are after the jump.

Via Racialicious, I found this article at the L.A. Times, regarding Edith Isabel Rodriguez’s death at the Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital: Read the rest of this entry »

Christina Olivares has a pretty fabulous post over at Cypher&Syllable titled “On Boxing,” in which she takes us through an afternoon as a novice boxer. Her post got me thinking about my class on girlpower just this past semester, and how I would go on these tangents about how boxing, like many other contact sports, fundamentally affects women and girls’ relationship to their bodies, and how transformative that can be. Such activities change one’s relationship to one’s body because it makes more opportunities for being experience the self as a subject rather than as an object, as able to make and take blows– rather than only subjected to blows.

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