At 10:00am the streets of Dublin are quiet and peaceful with the standard hustle and bustle of a Tuesday morning gone. The citizens of Dublin have left the city or holed up in their homes to prepare for today’s events. By 11:30 the people start flooding in from around the world crowing the streets between […]
The Ownership of Suffering
We’ve been fortunate enough to have been sheltered in the Republic of Ireland for the majority of these past months, where the worst exchanges are still legal protests and healthy political debate. We have not seen rubber bullets or armor piercing rounds fall on the few who can’t run fast enough. We have not seen […]
Un concierto
18 March 2015, In Santiago today — I’m gorged off an entire roasted pig, which the group consumed at a local finca. We spent the day dancing to an array of music and soaking in the sun in the hot Santiago swelter. Last night I had the opportunity to observe a side of Cuba […]
Through the Looking Glass
Last week, we watched a film called Suite Havana directed by Fernando Perez. Perez is arguably the most famous Cuban filmmaker, and Suite Habana one of his most famous films. Previous to studying Cuban history last semester, I had no idea that el cine holds such a critical position in Cuban artistic expression. Films such […]
Women’s Studies on the Guagua
Three days a week, I ride a guagua to and from el ISA. The guagua is the public bus system in Havana, and costs only one peso (about 4 cents USD). We take the p1, from Vedado to Paradero, which is the end of the line. I could write ethnographies about the experience of the […]