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pork

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Butcher Knives at the Ready

  • L.
  • December 10, 2019
For many years, I tried to civilize myself.
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Skin

  • Jessica Rae Bergamino
  • December 9, 2019
I am cooking myself back in to my family, back into my own skin.
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Pig on a Stick

  • Kristen Gaerlan
  • July 3, 2019
My Filipino father refused to be upstaged by a white man’s lechon.
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Do You Eat Pork?: Identity Politics in the Borderlands

  • K.T. Watkins
  • November 24, 2015
The ethnic conflict wears me down. I am tired of being put in boxes, tired of explaining why I don’t fit. I sleep less and less.
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Of Bacon and Transgression

  • Lyz Lenz
  • November 20, 2014
On The Butter, Syed Ali Hader writes about his complicated relationship with pork: I thought I would be found out. It was in my hair, my nails, and sweating through…
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Saturday Morning Links

  • Brian Spears
  • January 30, 2010
Call me a Philistine, but I felt Howard Zinn’s death way more than J.D. Salinger’s. Here’s some links for your Saturday morning. Dahlia Lithwick examines the contradictions and contortions KBR…
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