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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Feb 16, 202212 min read
"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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Nov 15, 20217 min read
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
Apr 27, 20217 min read
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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Jan 26, 202017 min read
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
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Sep 17, 201910 min read
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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 29, 20195 min read
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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 28, 20193 min read
“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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
Aug 28, 20195 min read
“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.
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