Sahiba Gill

Nestbeschmutzer, Now Out of Austria

When I boarded my plane out of Austria, the newspapers were breathlessly reporting on the just-broken story of Elisabeth Fritzl, an Austrian woman recently freed from the windowless basement where [...]
May 12, 2008

Spicy in Buenos Aires: Life-Saver

This is Stephanie Appiah's last column from Buenos Aires After two bouts of gastroenteritis -- yes, I got it again last week, and was sick for days -- I give [...]
May 7, 2008

Sex Sex Sex Masturbation Sex

I was originally going to title this week's column “In Defense of Straight Men” and write about the ways in which misogyny, homophobia, and sex negativity damage the straight men [...]
April 23, 2008

Dark Clouds Menace Buenos Aires

Yesterday, in Buenos Aires, thick dark clouds were suffocating the city. These clouds were not the heralds of a thunderstorm; rather, they are the marks of fires burning in the [...]
April 21, 2008

Political Situation Understood Through Meat

It's a difficult situation... The political situation is currently tense. The president of Argentina, Cristina Kirschner, raised the tax on exports, which directly affects the profits of farmers along the [...]
April 8, 2008

M: A Rebuttal

The Daily Gazette received the following message in response to my last column: As a Swarthmore student's parent, I think that your sophomoric column today about masturbating that was obviously [...]
April 4, 2008

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