Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Oct 15, 2022
- 15 min
Vincent and I - a Timeline of a Lifetime of Light on Light and Lightness
From an early age, Vincent Van Goghian's exuberant yellows and explosive blues inspired me to write as he painted so very tenderly.
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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Feb 17, 2022
- 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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Nov 15, 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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Apr 27, 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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Cecilia Martinez-Gil
- Nov 1, 2020
- 4 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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