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Five Weddings, Four Lawyers, Three Ghosts, One Bound Bear

  • Chad Cipiti

by Guest Blogger: Patrick Mulcahey How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Traditional Marriage The first time I got mass-married was at the March on Washington in 1987. It was one of the scheduled activities. We assembled in front…

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Human Rights Cup: Corporations=1, Human Beings=0

  • Chad Cipiti

In a stunning (but not unexpected) decision, the anti-human rights, anti-sexual freedom Supreme Court of the United States affirmed sexual freedom for corporations and denied it to human beings. Not good. Very, very bad. The decision is not out of…

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Iron Cage of Irrationality in Laws Surrounding Life and Death

  • Chad Cipiti

I’m pretty sure that when Max Weber wrote about the march toward increasing rationalization and disenchantment in modern societies that he didn’t anticipate the kinds of irrational and mysterious situations that advanced bureaucracies would produce. While he certainly understood that…

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Ambivalence, Realism, and Holiday Cheer

  • Chad Cipiti

Three interesting things happened this week. At first they seemed unrelated, but this morning they all bubbled up together and suddenly the fact that they are all happening basically at the same time seemed meaningful. First, my sister got interested…

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Patient Dominance

  • Chad Cipiti

Yesterday marked one year since the day my mother left this world, and I spent much of the morning with my grief and my memories. In the afternoon, my partner and I headed out to Staten Island for an art…

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Everything is Sticky

  • Chad Cipiti

Last week I proposed to write weekly previews of chapters that will make up this new project, My Mother's Cross. So far, I've shared previews of the introductory chapter called "Maternity Leave," and a chapter called "Hospital Domme". Today I'm…

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Boundaries

  • Chad Cipiti

Last week I introduced a new project I'm working on, and shared a small excerpt. Today I have a question. I've been thinking about this question a lot as I think about my relationship with my mother, and as I…

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