blackgirl on mars: notes on a life in copenhagen (or how my alienation brings me closer to people).

Here is the footage of the Women are Powerful and Dangerous Panel that took place here in Copenhagen last month. farvel, the lab

blackgirl on mars: notes on a life in copenhagen (or how my alienation brings me closer to people).: She Is Gone Now... : She is gone now. The sight of flour on skin, age spots form an archipelago across her arms. a clutter of dusty pictures and ...

from the day we walked to brooklyn, 2011 Last Thursday I had dinner with a former student at Copenhagen International School -- the school I worked in when I was headhunted to teach at Copenhagen City School.  When I started at CIS I started as a private tutor and substitute teacher. I was hired by a few parents to support their kids with their homework and I was finally hired to offer a child full-time classroom support. His name was Brendan and that  year I became very good friends with my Sarah from Wiggan, who was the classroom teacher. Sarah and I are friends to this day and we both worked really well together. Brendan was an amazing, round-faced, freckled boy whose family was also pretty amazing. I had to implement a reading programme with him, something that was supposed to help him read better as he was dyslexic. Brendan, like ALL other children I have met who have been diagnosed as having "special needs" was an amazingly talented young man. This experience ma...

This evening I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion for David Thorpe's film Do I Sound Gay? about Voice and Identity for  MIX Copenhagen Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans Film Festival at Cinemateket. The film - which is highly recommended- is a personal journey that filmmaker David Thorpe takes into the world of voice and identity. Joining us on the panel was educator and identity formation specialist Yanaba Rymark Sankoh, Anna K. Jørgensen (linguist and activist), Karin Sjogren (speech and language therapist) and the director himself, David Thorpe.