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    "The Other Me"-- Clearing the Smoke Blurring Faced-Up Mirrors: See and Thus, Be Seen
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Feb 17
    • 12 min

    "The Other Me"-- Clearing the Smoke Blurring Faced-Up Mirrors: See and Thus, Be Seen

    I've been obsessed with doppelgängers, alter egos, liminal experiences, otherness. Giga Agladze's The Other Me embodies it all
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    The Fourth Gender: Imagery, Identification, and Imagination In the Virtual Experience
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Nov 16, 2021
    • 7 min

    The Fourth Gender: Imagery, Identification, and Imagination In the Virtual Experience

    Today, cyberspace is a place where women, nonbinary folks and BIPOC can defy, undermine, and dispute traditional concepts of gender roles.
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    Postcards from Uruguay, and a few connecting flights. With love, Profé
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Apr 28, 2021
    • 7 min

    Postcards from Uruguay, and a few connecting flights. With love, Profé

    Postcards from Uruguay is an adaptation from the Blog prompt for my Santa Monica College students of English 57, Latin American Literature.
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    MAP - The Making of  Liam Whelan's Irish Lullaby. A Cartography of a Heritage.
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Nov 1, 2020
    • 9 min

    MAP - The Making of Liam Whelan's Irish Lullaby. A Cartography of a Heritage.

    Liam remembered the very first time that his Máthair Chríona sang the lullaby for him when he was a child, and an old ache squeezed his gut.
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    MAP - The Making of Rain with Sun - Brook's Poetic Ecosystems.
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Nov 1, 2020
    • 5 min

    MAP - The Making of Rain with Sun - Brook's Poetic Ecosystems.

    Liam stared at Brook—their shape was blurred by his teary eyes. Amber light filtered through the treetops of Sequoias and Redwoods.
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    Author Bill Clegg—Storytelling Sprinkled in Fairy Dust
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Oct 28, 2020
    • 16 min

    Author Bill Clegg—Storytelling Sprinkled in Fairy Dust

    A holistic look into author Bill Clegg’s literary works as interconnected ecosystems evincing his solid signature and sophisticated style.
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    The Making of "Realization": Merging Time, Place & Being Towards Resilience
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Oct 18, 2019
    • 9 min

    The Making of "Realization": Merging Time, Place & Being Towards Resilience

    Today, I find inspiration in the shape of a scar. I imagine that polka dots of blood can be read like musical notes spilling sounds.
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    A Place-Based Poem about Weather Report
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Sep 21, 2019
    • 6 min

    A Place-Based Poem about Weather Report

    Gale warning forecast by Mr. Jaco Pastorius--he is whirlpooling his rapid tornado, ripping the frets into splits and chunks of music.
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    Tracing Lines Between Stars: A Shamanistic Happenstance with Dr. David S. Whitley
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Sep 17, 2019
    • 10 min

    Tracing Lines Between Stars: A Shamanistic Happenstance with Dr. David S. Whitley

    Awareness opens our eyes to see, to gain access, and once we cross the threshold, we reach agency. And that is too, what brings awe.
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    Translating the Ineffable from the Liminalities of Otherness
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Aug 29, 2019
    • 5 min

    Translating the Ineffable from the Liminalities of Otherness

    Translation occurs in the immediacy of my bilingual mind. I'm a poet translating poetry, as poetry is written in its cathartic becoming.
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    “Ekphrasis of Cassandra’s Vow of Love.”
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Aug 28, 2019
    • 8 min

    “Ekphrasis of Cassandra’s Vow of Love.”

    I had thought that uncertainty and despair were the gradients of my life before I’d known about this flower growing inside me.
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    “Lily’s Dance at The Spinoff”
    Cecilia Martinez-Gil
    • Aug 28, 2019
    • 8 min

    “Lily’s Dance at The Spinoff”

    Her steps towards the stage were sensual, following the cry of mating, the howling of Beck’s guitar.
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