Category: Other
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Why switch?
“Lead, follow, or switch?” My favorite four words to hear at a social, and ones I almost only hear while fusion dancing. My joy at hearing this phrase is followed closely or maybe even surpassed by the always welcomed, “Are you okay with lifts/dips/close embrace?” Yay consent! Yay caring about your partner’s safety! But that’s…
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Why is dance more than a space for play?
I’m visiting home, which means I’m also dancing. I went to my original stomping grounds in Sacramento. I never had the chance to grow up here as a dancer, because I started dancing when I already lived somewhere else. But among many other firsts, I had my first lesson and my first social dance here.…
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Why a Happy Halloween?
Here’s something I haven’t written about in a while but still do all the time: programming. I decided to take a simple in-class exercise to build a memory game with React and turn it into an actual app I could add to my portfolio that doesn’t look, well, let’s just say it wasn’t a front-end…
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Why am I glad I left the United States?
“Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.” -William S Burroughs, great American writer who used his status to have sex with much younger men but that’s not what we’re here to talk about right now, ok? One of the many good things about living outside of…
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Why injury onset depression? (part two)
I was told I might have extensive nerve damage but I recovered fine. [Don’t know what I’m talking about? Check out part one] My surgeon was every ambitious bro I had ever met in college. Blond and drunk on self-confidence, in his office he surrounded himself with all the prestigious awards he had won to…
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Why injury onset depression? (part one)
It’s interesting to me how important labels are. It seems obvious, but being able to frame something in words is critical to being able to identify it. This process has always been slow for me. Ironically it has taken me a long time to accept that it takes me a long time to recognize my…
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Why do I hate this Sara Lopez video?
“Just because a girl knows how to imitate a woman does not mean she’s ready to do what a woman does.” I hate this video for the same reason any sane person hates child beauty pageants. Is there something wrong with a child dancing, and expressing themselves through the art of dance? No! Is there…
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Why chiSLANGo?
Learning a new language is embarrassing. I took Spanish in high school and college but I really didn’t get it. And while I can be quick on some things, the idea of verb conjugation itself took me about two years. So, as you can imagine, it was an uphill battle. In the months leading up…
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Why a portfolio with React?
As explained in my last post, I decided to redo more portfolio from HTML and vanilla JavaScript to a React framework, and I finally finished! Even though I had done everything once, I ran into a lot of problems updating the code, and decide to document my struggle component by component. The original site: http://theoffseasoner.com/ React…
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Why use frameworks?
I made a website! I built it originally using HTML and JavaScript and it’s not much to look at yet. Part of my job is to review portfolio websites, and I was tasked with writing an article to give tips for beginners that want to make a personal site. What better way to prepare than…