by rjacksonpaton | Jun 15, 2015 | sex & love
friends recently getting engaged and married have reminded me that social norms and beliefs about finding the one are based on a scarcity model of love and relationship. if there is only the one what happens if we don’t find them? are we destined to wander...
by rjacksonpaton | Feb 3, 2015 | en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings
i’ve been reading an article in Psychology Today, and it has bearing on all kinds of unsettling work, both personal AND also social and cultural, too: ‘It’s an axiom of psychology that we are some recombination of all of our yesterdays. To move forward...
by rjacksonpaton | Jan 23, 2015 | en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, readings
the other day i read two articles in the NY Times magazine that were something of review essays about film, tv and books in popular culture. they struck me for a few reasons: first, my work of being unsettled is about breaking down the barriers that i’ve been...
by rjacksonpaton | Dec 1, 2014 | connections, dissertation, en/gendering embodiment, readings, writing
In my last post, I dedicated ‘gone fishing’ to Brené Brown, Amanda Palmer and Fritz Tramonte. This is both brief backstory, and also reflection on becoming a new fan of someone in ‘popular culture.’ Brené has been on my ‘team’ for...
by rjacksonpaton | Nov 2, 2014 | en/gendering embodiment, writing
body of work … work of body went to the Bath House Cultural Center today for their annual dias de los muertas show and i was very inspired. so i am writing up an initial proposal and sending it to a few of my artist friends, and we’ll see where it...
by rjacksonpaton | Oct 21, 2014 | eco-somatics, en/gendering embodiment, ethnoautobiography, writing
in recent weeks, i’ve been practically bombarded with inspiration, experience, and passion gathering around a quote from Boyhood filmmaker, Richard Linklater. when the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart asked about the unpredictability of filming over a twelve-year...
