{"id":853,"date":"2012-10-28T14:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/?page_id=853"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:38:11","slug":"affinities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/affinities\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"column-grid column-grid-2\"><div class=\"column column-span-1 column-push-0 column-first\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1065\" title=\"Affinities\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pigeonaffinities.jpg\" alt=\"Affinities\" width=\"540\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pigeonaffinities.jpg 540w, http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pigeonaffinities-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column column-span-1 column-push-0 column-last\"><\/p>\n<p>This page is under construction. I like too many things to list them all! Here are a few of my favorites.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Few Favorite Books<\/strong> (and quickly chosen quotes)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers<\/em> by Bhanu Kapil.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Sometimes she feels that her body is open to the air. There is nothing that separates her from herself. She does not exist. She can&#8217;t exist. If she existed, her wholeness would be irrelevant; a lit match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Descent of Alette<\/em> by Alice Notley.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8221; &#8220;She was fireproof&#8221; &#8220;She was gloves, &amp; she&#8221; &#8220;took&#8221; &#8220;the baby&#8221; &#8220;took the baby&#8221; &#8220;away from the&#8221; &#8220;mother&#8221; &#8220;Extracted&#8221; &#8220;the burning baby&#8221; &#8220;from the fire&#8221; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>At the Water&#8217;s Edge: Macroeveolution and the Transformation of Life<\/em> by Carl Zimmer.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;After hiding for 363 million years on a Greenland mountainside, the eight fingers of <em>Acanthostega<\/em> managed to emerge with perfect timing.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The young of the Alpine salamander grow inside their mother&#8217;s uterus, feeding on secretions oozing from its walls, and emerge in adult form\u2014after a pregnancy of three years.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Along the coasts of the Cretaceous oceans swam gigantic marine reptiles known as mosasaurs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>My Gender Workbook<\/em> by Kate Bornstein.<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Once we admit that we truly exist as being outside the binary, we also begin to suspect that none of us can truly have a pure identity, gendered or otherwise. And if we do come to that conclusion, that&#8217;s when we disappear. Well, not really. I think what happens is the apparently monolithic WE ARE reverts to a lot of I AMs, and we have the opportunity to forge a culture of unique individuals who share common values.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Few Favorite Filmmakers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deepa Mehta<br \/>\nMichel Gondry<br \/>\nIngmar Bergman<br \/>\nTerry Gilliam<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">___<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>My Favorite Humanitarian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr. Fred Rogers<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Water&#8217;s Edge: Macroeveolution and the Transformation of Life by Carl Zimmer. &#8220;After hiding for 363 million years on a Greenland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page_fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-853","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/853\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}