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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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.
Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Oct 27, 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.
Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Jan 26, 2020
- 17 min
Sky-Diving Into Seas of Ink: Full Immersion in the Reading Experience
Vertical Reading it's a full immersion into a book's pages, where I swim beside the people in a world of liquid ink within an author's pages
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Aug 28, 2019
- 9 min
“Lily’s Dance at The Spinoff”
She wore pink stilettos. Her steps towards the stage were sensual, following the cry of mating, the howling of Beck’s guitar.