Miss U.

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Just Who is this Mary Kay Lady?

Miss U. posted an article on - Dec 4, 2010, 8:25 pm
I've always considered myself to not be one of those "hair and nails" girls who are constantly obsessed with makeup and looking in a mirror. Of course I wear makeup and fix myself up, but I'm not overly concerned with reapplying my lipstick throughout the day when it has worn off. So, I've not reall...
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Non-Consensual Unprotected Sex

Miss U. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2010, 10:32 am
Recently one of my friends called me and posed a question that I haven't been able to get out of my head. It has to do with a man taking a condom off without permission while having consensual sex. Is it rape? Should a man be arrested? Has anyone ever been arrested for something like that? Would the...
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Banned Books Week

Miss U. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2010, 4:18 pm
It's Banned Books Week, a celebration of books that have been banned, challenged, restricted, or burned due to controversial themes or topics that are in the book. Of course any mention of sexuality, rape, or homosexuality is immediate cause for the right wing nutjobs to start their witch hunt and c...
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What We've Been Up To

Miss U. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2010, 1:53 pm
We have been spending a little bit of time over at our newest project, Wild Women Reviews. I mentioned it in one of the previous posts and we sure have been having fun with the project. The goal of it is to have a collective group of women who write reviews, commentary and opinion of books, movies, ...
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Wild Women Reviews

Miss U. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2010, 5:22 pm
I'm starting a new blog with a similar theme here that we have on Bad Ass Femmes. I haven't been been updating too frequently here because I have started to prefer the wordpress platform and the functionality that it provides. I plan on continuing to write here, but maybe not so often. We are ...
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Bibliophilia

Miss U. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2010, 2:45 am
I've got bibliophilia. I could just read and read all day long, and I can never get enough of it. So, tomorrow I have decided that I am starting a book blog. I mentioned it on twitter and a couple of other people said that they might be interested, so I am just writing down my thoughts here un...
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Who's Gonna Catch Me When I Fall??

Miss U. posted an article on - Sep 3, 2010, 3:46 am
I'm tired of being the strong one all the time. I even feel guilty for writing such a blasphemy. Ever since I was a little girl, I had to be strong as I watched my mother have a break down for years after my father left her. When I was in the second grade, she broke her back and was in the hos...
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Switch-Not So Bad After All

Miss U. posted an article on - Aug 21, 2010, 11:36 pm
Today my two friends took me out to dinner and forced (for lack of a better term) me to go and see the new Jennifer Aniston movie, Switch. I was really hesitant about seeing the movie because I really had heard nothing about it other than the fact that her character was trying to have a baby on her ...
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Writing Opportunity

Miss U. posted an article on - Aug 19, 2010, 2:05 am
Hi all- I've been off this blog for a bit since I've been working on other web projects elsewhere. There's a particular project that I have been brainstorming with my partner for quite a bit of time, and now we are ready to get started on this one starting next week! I've mentioned in th...
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I Can't Get This Crazy Out of My Soul

Miss U. posted an article on - Aug 7, 2010, 3:50 pm
Last night something really dysfunctional happened to me and I came home and wrote a blog post about it. However, I was so disgusted by what had happened that I erased it. But right now on twitter I saw a tweet about a video that just literally gave me chills on my arms, and I suppose that I feel co...
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Should I Attend Employees' Special Events and Functions?

Miss U. posted an article on - Aug 1, 2010, 2:38 pm
I need a little advice!! Where do I even begin? Many might say (including myself) that I am not the "typical woman". Whatever that means-but it has been told to me over and over throughout my life and so now I am convinced that I don't fit into the stereotypical female box. I feel that a...
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More Fuel for My Spy Fetish

Miss U. posted an article on - Jul 24, 2010, 5:15 pm
I consider myself to be a strong woman. As a strong woman, I have often felt that I'm sometimes so deprived of other images of strong women depicted in popular culture that I sometimes feel that I practically salivate when I see the slightest inkling of another strong woman on television, in movies,...
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If This is Me Being a Wack Job, Then It's Obvious That You Are a Total Idiot

Miss U. posted an article on - Jul 6, 2010, 11:38 pm
I'm super entertained with something that recently happened to me on twitter, so I just thought I would put it down in writing. The reason why I am so entertained is because I was actually on my best behavior (and some of you who know me well will know exactly what I am talking about in a minute), y...
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So Why Again Do you Like Being Single, Freak???

Miss U. posted an article on - Jun 10, 2010, 7:22 pm
I've definitely never have been a Danielle Steel fan, but this morning on Good Morning America (or whatever show I was watching) I was quite impressed when I heard that she has sold over half a million copies of all her books, and that all of her books have been on the bestseller list. So I'll quali...
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Sing it Sista: PMS Blues

Miss U. posted an article on - Jun 4, 2010, 7:07 pm
Okay mujeres and hombres, yours truly is singing this song today at the top of my lungs. Sing it sista! OMG I love the lyrics to this song! Watch out!
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I Don't Feel Like Myself Anymore

Miss U. posted an article on - Jun 3, 2010, 1:20 am
I have the urge to write since I haven't been writing anything lately, but I just feel that my mind is currently too scrambled to probably write down a coherent string of thoughts. But I will still try, since I know that writing in the past has been an outlet for me and somewhat of a release valve f...
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Treat Yourself: Women's Pajamas!

Miss U. posted an article on - May 30, 2010, 10:08 pm
There is probably something that you don't know about me, and that secret is that I am an addict of women's pajamas! I love pajamas of all types, and I really look forward to coming home after a long day of work in order to slip into a comfortable, relaxing, or sexy pair of pajamas. So logically I w...
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"You Better Learn to Have Nerves of Steel"

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 29, 2010, 11:06 pm
In January I blogged about an up and coming Latina teacher who was young, talented and ambitious. At the time she was sitting in my office, crying her little heart out because her principal and vice principal weren't helping her with her leadership potential or a leadership project that she had to c...
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Who Needs the KKK When You Have Arizona?

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 23, 2010, 10:31 pm
Is this what the governor of Arizona wore when she went to sign the immigration act that institutionalizes legal racial profiling against the Latino population? Or does she just wear this in her secret meetings? (Please feel free to post this pic to any of your blogs or social networks!)
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I'm Not Here to Entertain Your Sorry Ass

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 22, 2010, 10:12 pm
I'm not here to fucking entertain anyone. I am not on twitter to fucking entertain anyone. I blog and play on twitter because quite frankly I have no inner monologue and am always tempted to just say whatever is on my mind. I've always hated when other people act like it's my fucking job to en...
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Story of My Life

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 22, 2010, 12:50 am
I think that in the past I might have mentioned that I am getting an award next week at work. If I didn't, well now you know. I've never been a person to really care about getting stuff like awards or recognition, because I have passion for what I do and I don't need anyone to recognize me for somet...
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I Feel Like I am Split Into Competing Parts of My Whole

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 18, 2010, 8:19 pm
First and foremost, I have to apologize if anything that I say sounds jumbled and nonsensical, as I just so happen to be intoxicated at the moment. What better thought while inebriated than the uncontrollable urge to blog something, right? We'll see when I'm sober tomorrow. I've been sitting h...
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Office Politics, Part II

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 17, 2010, 2:35 pm
I've blogged in the past about this lady at work who is driving me absolutely crazy. For years she was used to running the show and people rarely questioned her at the time. Ever since I first met her, she tried to initially be nice to me (when I was not at her level) but I always sensed that she di...
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And The Fuck You Feminist Award Goes to ...Erica Jong

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 15, 2010, 4:03 am
This morning before I left for work I quickly read the Erica Jong piece that was published in the Huffington Post about Oprah. I won't discuss the fact that the piece was very difficult to read and poorly written. I would have thought that a big bad author who probably gave Oprah all of her ideas (s...
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I'm Having Another Damn Identity Crisis

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 13, 2010, 12:07 am
Tonight on twitter I was having an emotional outburst about filling out the census. I feel frustrated that I can't mark off "Latina" and that I have to mark White, American Indian, or other. What the hell? I mentioned this on twitter and a few people mentioned that I should just mark White and...
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He Wasn't There

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 11, 2010, 8:18 pm
She always had a fierce, independent spirit that didn't require much from the men and friends in her life. Ever since she was a community organizer back in high school and college and having first read Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, she learned to accept that having friends and lovers in a simil...
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Small Acts of Compassion

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 8, 2010, 2:07 am
Tonight my heart is full of admiration and respect for one of my very good friends who also happens to be my roommate. This evening she asked me if I would go out to dinner with her and I joined her at the local diner at the corner. At one point in the evening, she disappeared for a while and I...
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Verbal Transgressions: Pussy

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 7, 2010, 12:48 am
I saw this poet at a slam poetry contest and I loved it. !Viva la mujer! LEANNE SLAM KaYa Bliss | MySpace Video
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Personal Ramblings from a Past Life

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 6, 2010, 4:13 am
I was nineteen years old when you came home from that year long naval trip, bursting through the door and telling me how so desperately some of those Australian girls wanted you all to bring them back home to the good ole USA. What you didn't notice was that I was on the phone with him, and quic...
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Tryin' to Find Direction

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 5, 2010, 11:05 am
I am having a crisis! Well, maybe I am just being a drama queen, of course. I feel so uncomfortable with my blogging for some reason. I have been off this blog for a bit, because: 1) I've been having personal issues, and 2) I have been helping a friend get some of her blogs off the ground. ...
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"You Can't Do That"-The Fine Art of Discouragement

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 4, 2010, 5:47 pm
This morning I went to breakfast with my cousin and she told me something that I have been thinking about all day. She is already a manager for a certain company, but lately she has been exploring different ways that she can possibly have more flexibility over her work schedule. Lately she has been ...
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Remembering Neglected Dreams

Miss U. posted an article on - Apr 3, 2010, 6:37 pm
I have a dream that I have had for a long time, and that I frequently put to the back of my mind. But it's always always been there, since I was in high school. In the ninth grade, I fell in love with literature in one of my English classes. I can remember my eccentric teacher Mrs. Donahue,...
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Def Poetry: Waitress

Miss U. posted an article on - Mar 29, 2010, 1:30 am
I can relate to the "poker face" at the end:
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When Does It Ever End?!

Miss U. posted an article on - Mar 27, 2010, 1:44 am
It's been no secret that I have had a rough couple of months, and that's one of the main reasons that I haven't been blogging on this blog much. Over the past few months, it's been rough in the work setting, I have cut everyone off in my whole family except one person (who better get...
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What's Happening!?!

Miss U. posted an article on - Mar 19, 2010, 12:49 am
I've been off this blog for a bit because I have had so many crazy things going on with my work, and all this education crisis crap is just wearing me down. In the meantime I have been also working my ass off, because quite frankly I can't imagine working in a broken institution for the rest...
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Once Upon a Strange Mood

Miss U. posted an article on - Mar 17, 2010, 2:06 am
I miss blogging, as I haven't blogged in quite a bit. It's been a rough month which started with the flu and has a been a constant battle of personal and professional conflict. I've been too emotionally exhausted, to put it bluntly, to even try to think about it for the time that it woul...
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Family Drama

Miss U. posted an article on - Feb 21, 2010, 11:00 pm
I have decided to move my family drama topics over to a new blog that I have created. If you are interested in wacko, dysfunctional families, then you might be interested in reading my new blog. I've been down with the flu lately, and will be blogging here as soon as I build my energy up ag...
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I am a Latina feminist who is pretty much far to the left of the political spectrum.

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