the parts & the motion.

[subjective]

i'm thinking of volunteering with either the eastern massachusetts abortion fund or the abortion access project. who knows anything about either organization?

over the weekend i read all but the last 50 pages of suits me: the double life of billy tipton. it included wrong pronouns (on purpose), an inability to understand why one would live as a different gender beyond the fact that it was easier for men to make it big in the jazz music business 50 years ago, & an inexplicable fascination with how he had sex & why his girlfriends didn't "figure it out." fuck that. aren't you lucky i did the work for you, so you can now avoid this book at all costs.

current grad school list:
uc davis, cultural studies
nyu, american studies
univ michigan, history/women's studies
harvard, history of science
rutgers, history (with concentration in hist of medicine & hist of gender)

i wrote good things for my zine last night while listening to mirah's "advisory committee" on repeat. no idea when the zine will be finished. maybe within a month.

this winter i am all about soup. please send vegetarian soup recipes my way, pronto. i have already perfected my potato-leek soup. i like most all produce except fennel & cucumbers. i can veganize pretty much anything. help a kid out please.

the annual transgender day of remembrance is 20 november. info forthcoming on what's happening in boston.

i still have no halloween costume.

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minestrone!

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Ingredients
1 large onion
1 large stalk of celery
2 medium sized, thin skinned potatoes
2 or 3 carrots
quarter of a green cabbage
2 cloves of garlic
1 teaspoon of dry basil
half a teaspoon of dry rosemary
half a teaspoon of oregano leaves
half a teaspoon of thyme leaves
quarter of a cup of pearl barley
8 cups of vegetable stock
quarter of a cup of tomato paste
one small can of red kidney beans
two thirds of a cup of small shell macaroni
some olive oil


Method
chop the onion and celery up finely. crush or mince the garlic. dice the potatoes and carrots. chop the cabbage into thin strips.

heat a small amount of olive oil in a really big pot. add the onion, celery, garlic and herbs. stir until the onion is soft.

add the potatoes and carrots, pearl barley and vegetable stock. bring to the boil over a high heat. cover, reduce heat and simmer for 40 minutes, stirring every so often.

mix in the red kidney beans including their liquid, and add macaroni and tomato paste. bring back to the boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.

add the cabbage and cook, uncovered, for 5 more minutes.

serve with lightly toasted garlic bread (cut up a fresh loaf of bread into pieces, spread on olive oil spread or margarine then minced garlic, toast under the grill).

serves about 5-6 hungry people (or 2-3 with leftovers the next day).

Re: minestrone!

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also, there are some other yummy-sounding recipes on veganchallenge.org:
http://veganchallenge.org/recipes/soupsandstews/