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Being Extra – to be continued 2
October 8, 2010, 8:27 pm
Filed under: Being Extra, Santiago stories, texts

So, we went to a book launch by the artist Yael Rosenblut and a woman wanted to take a photo of me to put it on a fashion blog. “Your style is so unusual and you look so different.” Not exactly what you want to hear as a foreigner who thinks she blends in. However, good research for my in-its-coming-writing-project being extra.

Judge for yourself: vistelacalle.com



Being Extra – to be continued
May 7, 2010, 9:55 pm
Filed under: Being Extra, Santiago stories

Living in Chile is for me an ongoing investigation in how to do or how to deal with womanhood, femininity, sister solidarity, beautification, motherhood, feminism, machism and other delicate topics. Sometimes I infiltrate media like this article 5 extranjeras y sus rutinas de bienestar in Revista YA!, a weekly magazine for women published and distributed by the newspaper El Mercurio. On the photo I hold my grandmother’s version of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe.




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