Pig on a Stick
My Filipino father refused to be upstaged by a white man’s lechon.
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Posts Tagged: pork
Do You Eat Pork?: Identity Politics in the Borderlands
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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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 my pores. Surely my parents could smell it on me. And then they would want some. How could they turn it down? I knew that […]
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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 is going through to keep Jamie Leigh Jones from having her day in court–including going to court over it. Louisiana Senator David Vitter dares the […]
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