NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO

I got an email the other day which featured the "purest" example of ideology I've seen in quite a while. It contained an email that had been sent to my friend (who I won’t name in case she wants her identity kept secret) from a “Marxist” professor which basically attacked her for not being Marxist enough. I only know some of the context, but she had just recently helped organize an Ethnic Studies summit in San Diego and so the listserv for the conference has been the site for a lot of pointless posturing, of which this purely ideological email is a perfect example. Reading the snarky, snippy Marxist email was both hysterical and depressing. It represented on the one hand something so hilarious in the way in which the author took himself and his orthodox defense of Marxist theory, thought and intellectualism so seriously. It was depressing because it made him look like someone so sublimely out of touch with reality and even the nature of the very theories he was shrou...

A very personal post today, so I hope you'll forgive me. I’m at the very end of a big phase of my life. I’m all but finished with my Ph.D. program, I graduated, I defended As I stand here though, where the future looks like a frightening bleak expanse, which I can only jump into, and the past is a welcoming mass of things all radiating nostalgia, both in good and bad sense. First as things which I no longer cherish, but wish I could and others which I have left behind and wish I didn’t. Whenever we come to a point such as this, we wish desperately that we could sift through that old life, like a family searching through an already burning house for the things that are most precious, and pack a suitcase to carry them with us. But you know that you can’t do that. Some if not most of that old life will be waiting for you at the bottom of the cliff. It will appear brand new at first, but then begin to signify the same familiarity. What scares us the most about this situation, this tran...

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Humahanao yu' tatte para San Diego pa'go, lao fine'nina bai sugo' giya Hawai'i ya bei bisita Si Tata-hu. Achokka' dos na simana ha' desde umali'e ham yan i nuebu na guinaiya-ku, sen mahalang yu' nu Guiya. Hu tugiyi gui' este gi i batkon aire ginnen Hapon. Buente atdet i palabras yan " over the top." Lao estague i kustumbren i korason taotao no? I mas i chinago', pat meggai'na i inachago'n-miyu mas atdet siempre i piniti yan i minahalang. Pues achokka' buente noskuantos na mit miyas umafa'sipara ham, i sinientete-ku kalang malingu yu' gi otro na dimension. Lao hu guaiya gui' sinembatgo, ya kumekehomlo' i korason-hu, sa' agupa' para bei in ali'e ta'lo. Guinaiya Gi I Chi-Na I Tano' Yanggen hu li’e i matå’-mu un biåhi mas Manmafunas esta siempre i triste-ku Este lagu’ ni’ tumutu’u påppa’ Este ha’ ma sasångan Maloffan hagas esta i chi-hu siha Lao hinangai-hu ha’ put Hågu Fabores...

Ti mappot para un tungo' ngai'an na humalom nuebu na guinaiya gi lina’lå-hu. Sa’ ensigidas yu’ mamange’ betsu ta’lo! Yanggen un gof tungo’ yu’, pues esta un komprende siempre na sen fanahgue’yan i lina’lå-hu pa’go. Didide’ fitme pa’go, ya gi i mamaila na meses siha, tåya siempre siguru. Kada nai hu hasso put este nuebu na guinaiya-ku, hu hasso lokkue i betsu “Fanatguiyan,” ni’ fine’nina hu fakcha’i gi un lepblon Tony Ramirez. Estague i palabras-ña: Fanatguiyan i ha’åni-mu Chumachalek hao pa’go Kumakasao hao agupa’ Desde i mafañågu-mu Asta i finatai-mu Fanatguiyan i ha’åni-mu Gefhasso na tåya’ orå-ña I minagof yan i piniti gi lina’lå-mu Chumachalek hao pa’go Tumatanges hao agupa’ Kao u ma’ok este na nuebu na guinaiya? Pa’go sa’ sen sinekkai yu’, hu diseseha na hunggan. Lao put i atdet na tiempo siha ni’ ma nanangga yu’ mo’ña, hekkua’, ti siguru yu’. Lao para pa’go bai hu po’loñaihon este na chathinasso siha, ya gosa i chubaskon i guinaiyan-måmi gaige gi halom i paky...