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Transforming Trans

Posted on March 8, 2017 by admin

Today is International Women’s Day. My life is blessedly suffused with smart, fierce, creative, and innovative women, many of whom love me for reasons I’ll never fully fathom. I cannot do them all justice in 1,000 words, so I’m going to focus instead on women who face a particular challenge – asserting their status as…

Transforming Ovid: Creation

Posted on August 25, 2016 by admin

Ovid’s Metamorphoses begins with a retelling of the Greco-Roman creation myth. Since I’m about to launch my own set of new beginnings (France in four days! Eeeeeep!), I figured it was a wise time to explore his poetic description of the biggest beginning of all. NOTE: In this (and future) missives about Metamorphoses, I’ll be…

Transforming Ovid

Posted on July 2, 2016July 2, 2016 by admin

If you could only bring one book with you to a desert island, which book would you choose? Ovid’s full name was Publius Ovidius Naso, but like a lot of contemporary rockstars, he preferred to go by one name only. He was a contemporary of Virgil, who wrote the Aeneid, one of the seminal works…