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medusastoned: October 2012
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Thursday, October 11, 2012. On the bus: bodies in the wasteland. So, there was this one man whose under-belly ( can the word be used to describe the part of the human body, or is it only to be used in sentences like :the underbelly of the society"? Was rubbing on Medusa's bicep. Medusa was trying to cringe further into her seat, but the none-too-thin man on her left sat solidly and stolidly like a rock, so cringing was difficult. Preciado challenges naturalized notions of the body and sexuality that priv...
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medusastoned: Bodies of women.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012. There's a girl who studies in one of the other departments, at work. She's familiar to Medusa, mostly through the praises of her teachers, but also because she is always around whenever Medusa visits that department. She seems sorted, pleasant, is clearly intelligent and studious. All irrelevant. And she has also been threatened with an acid bulb. And again, "If he did not want me to stare at his belly, why did he wear such a tight shirt? Pretty taxing, this imagining. Kaleidosc...
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medusastoned: mother medusa
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Thursday, June 27, 2013. There were about a hundred answer scripts to correct, two articles to write, one that had been due for two years (bless the editors) and the for- ever. Pending thesis. Therefore, as all rational and highly intellectual professionals must also be doing, instead of getting down to work, Medusa took up a hobby. 8221; (Well, he was speaking in Bengali and did not use a gendered pronoun, simply asking kyamon aanke. And it was incredibly stupid of Medusa. Why didn’t she remem...But the...
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medusastoned: April 2014
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Saturday, April 05, 2014. In which Medusa proved the body- image theorists wrong. So all this while, when Medusa had been asked whether she is concerned about women’s body images for her research, she had noncommittally nodded her head, thinking body image to be some sort of a subjective category of how people think of their bodies. But she was wrong, oh so wrong. Did she know that it is not subjective at all, it is good and true science, calculable and quantifiable at the same time? No she did not.
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medusastoned: Rainy days and Mondays
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Thursday, July 09, 2015. Rainy days and Mondays. Always get me down. So goes the song. Of perhaps The Carpenters. And of course, when Medusa hears this sad song and thinks of The Carpenters. She also remembers that Karen Carpenter died, from anorexia. So there, the sadness in the song makes sense. And it makes sense in this glorious weather when for once, the people without ACs feel as good about themselves as people with ACs must. But till then, rainy days and Mondays. Thursday, July 09, 2015. Kaleidosc...
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medusastoned: November 2010
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Sunday, November 28, 2010. What is the need to speak for Arundhati Roy? Medusa does not want to have to defend Arundhati Roy- and there are two reasons for it. One: she is perfectly capable of defending herself (just take a look at the impassioned note. From Kashmir after the first rumours of sedition charges started- and ignore the overtly sappy nature of the thing); second: Medusa does not always agree with her. And that is what makes it imperative on the Delhi High court to cry for charges of sedition.
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medusastoned: July 2012
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Saturday, July 28, 2012. My body, your body, and the availability of it. If yes, did the man then proceed with an erection? If yes, how long did it last? Longer than the contact with the unknown woman's body, surely? Where was the crowd then? And what is the pleasure that people get from hitting unknown women, is it the same pleasure that one gets from grabbing the breast and the bum? Or is it something else? Saturday, July 28, 2012. Care of the self. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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medusastoned: August 2012
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012. There's a girl who studies in one of the other departments, at work. She's familiar to Medusa, mostly through the praises of her teachers, but also because she is always around whenever Medusa visits that department. She seems sorted, pleasant, is clearly intelligent and studious. All irrelevant. And she has also been threatened with an acid bulb. And again, "If he did not want me to stare at his belly, why did he wear such a tight shirt? Pretty taxing, this imagining. Medusa, s...
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medusastoned: In which Medusa proved the body- image theorists wrong.
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Saturday, April 05, 2014. In which Medusa proved the body- image theorists wrong. So all this while, when Medusa had been asked whether she is concerned about women’s body images for her research, she had noncommittally nodded her head, thinking body image to be some sort of a subjective category of how people think of their bodies. But she was wrong, oh so wrong. Did she know that it is not subjective at all, it is good and true science, calculable and quantifiable at the same time? No she did not.
