8a Blonde
Silvina Spindler
I am a traveler too but I am leashed to the corporate world. I do get to see amazing places. I am an adult educator for a software company. I teach my clients how to get the most out of their very expensive purchases. This has led me to work in Moscow, Berlin, London, Paris and Hong Kong in the last 2 years in addition to many locations in the US. All great cities in their own respects.
I live in Albuquerque and have a passion for the landscapes and vast terrain of our state. I love hiking with my little pack, two Labradors, Jakk and Jill. I enjoyed your writing and will spent many hours lost in your words and photos.
Yes traveling is great. I use to move every 6 months or more. I have traveled to different countries as well. I am an animal rescuer and my 6 year old is wonderful with animals as well. He has school and so that has stopped my traveling
I am so envious of you lol have a great time this summer. I will try to remember your blog Love he teardrop. I am curious, is the interior photo side to side or front to back. Can you set up comfortably inside while working on the computer? Just seemed to me there is more room than I can picture. Thanks and safe happy travels.
Very inspiring travel log. Growing up in NM I have several great memories of camping from Carlsbad to Fenton lake and everywhere in between. We converted from tent to teardrop two years ago and have never looked back. We are busy wearing out Arizona these days. Love your positive attitude.
I also travelled all over the USA/Canada for about 7 years. Sold jewelery and minerals, etc enroute. Loved it and miss it still. Rescued some dogs enroute, then settled down in NM in a place called Bent, NM(by Mescalero/Ruidoso area) for awhile to rescue more animals primarily, (was the reason I stopped the travels full time.) Now in Washington, which I love exploring with my 2 dogs. Really enjoy your blog and pictures, we are kindred spirits. I am also a blonde adventuress! Would be cool if I ever ran into you out exploring, You are a cool brave adventurous lady also, as people have described me too. I used to think there were not many l;adies travelling alone, but discovered there were some here and there that I met. Namaste ,Ambery Wolf
Although I have made a trip near this location once before, it was more of an excuse to pic up my dog Ginger, who I had left behind with a friend. Not to mention, I needed to better understand the terrain. However, once I arrived I knew that this secret spot we both had been looking for, was not far from where I stopped. So, I returned home and did more research until I could confirm.
Hi I am a teacher in Newark, New Jersey. I really liked your article for Earth on tectonic plates from May 22, 2017. Is there any way you could send me part 2 about the effect of the plate movement on the atmosphere? From June 2017 or around then? My email is afr...@nps.k12.nj.us. I am looking forward to exporing your site more. You are an incredible lady!
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AILSA CHANG, HOST: OK, of all the choices we make about our appearance, what does it mean to choose to dye our hair blond?UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: It's a state of mind being blond. It's, like, happy and free and exciting. I don't know. But I've never - I've been brunette, but I didn't feel the same way.CHANG: But what if you're a person of color and you choose to go blond? Are you choosing to go white? That is the question that poet Claudia Rankine put to a lot of people she met the last couple years. And she got a range of answers. Those answers and photographs are part of a new exhibit in Brooklyn called "Stamped." Claudia Rankine joins us now to talk about the work. Welcome.CLAUDIA RANKINE: Hello.CHANG: So how did you come up with the idea for this project?RANKINE: Well, a few years ago, I was at a college. And a professor, a black woman, said to me, what do I say to my students who have gone blond? And presumably she meant her black female students. You know, my initial response was to say people should do what they want to do.CHANG: Right.RANKINE: But then I began to look. And I realized that everybody was going blond. And it was also in the runup to the election. So, you know, it was hard to miss Trump, commentators, media, everybody in the media blond. And so I began to wonder...CHANG: Including Hillary Clinton.RANKINE: And including Hillary Clinton. So I began to wonder if this was just unconscious or conscious or - so I started asking people.CHANG: I mean, when you went into this project, how much of it had to do with this idea that blondness was a standard of beauty in our society?RANKINE: Well, it had everything to do with it (laughter).CHANG: Yeah, yeah.RANKINE: I don't think I would have been - I wouldn't have been that interested. But, you know, I'm interested in conversations around race because talking about race seems to be taboo if the race is white, you know? And - because it has become a sort of unmarked category to mean people when you actually mean white people. And blondness became a metaphor for that, a sort of unconscious, ubiquitous metaphor. And everybody was going blond - Asian women, black women and almost, it seemed, all white women.CHANG: Well, when you asked non-white people why they dyed their hair blond, what did they say to you?RANKINE: I did hear a lot that it made my skin look lighter.CHANG: Oh, interesting.RANKINE: And probably the most sad and moving report I had was a young woman in a shop who said, I - when I went blonde, I found myself. It was really me. My skin was lighter. Even my mother said so. And that - I found that a little tragic.CHANG: I read that some people got kind of defensive when you brought up the issue of whiteness. Why do you think people got defensive?RANKINE: Mostly it was white people who got defensive.CHANG: Really? And how so?RANKINE: Yeah.CHANG: Defensive in what way?RANKINE: Mostly young white women - they felt that the choice to go blonde was a personal choice. And they felt they looked better. They felt better. They were treated better. And...CHANG: Treated better by men, by women, by everybody?RANKINE: By everyone. When I asked them if they thought that was tied somehow to the expectations of whiteness, they got defensive around that. And, you know, a few of them said, can you erase the interview or...CHANG: Wow.RANKINE: ...I don't want to talk about this anymore. So, you know - and I think that's tied to the fact that talking about race is taboo among white people. And so to say that you have invested in a thing - and it is an investment. You know, it costs sometimes $400, $200 for touch-ups. So, you know, that line of investigation and inquiry was not acceptable to them.CHANG: Well, could an argument be made that the decision didn't go that deep, that you're assuming there is some deeper attachment or non-attachment to whiteness? But maybe the decision to go blond was just a fun, kind of care-free thing the way some people dye their hair blue or purple. And why interrogate them about it?RANKINE: Exactly. It - I mean, it could be that. And often I would say, do you dye your hair other colors? And some women said, no, it's always blond. You know, so if it's really about the funness (ph) of dying your hair, then perhaps you would do blue or green or whatever. But for them, it was a commitment to blondness.CHANG: We should say that this exhibit is just one way that you've explored the issue of race in your career from poetry to the stage to essays you've written. I'm curious. How did this project differ from those other projects? What did it help you learn that maybe the others didn't?RANKINE: Well, this oddly felt more community-based. I - when I started talking to people and taking their images with my iPhone - and then my husband joined in because he's a much better photographer than I am - I never really knew where it was going. I was just interested to hear what people would say. And it frankly surprised me how few had thought about blondness' marriage to whiteness.CHANG: Claudia Rankine is an award-winning writer whose most recent book is titled "Citizen." Her exhibit that explores blondness is called "Stamped," and you can see it at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn through August 26. Thank you very much for joining us.RANKINE: Thank you.
The First Mistake: It was October of 2021 when I got the urge to dye my dark brown hair blonde. Fresh out of a long-term relationship, away at college for the first time, and needing a new look, I wanted to embrace change head-on. What better way to do that than bleaching my hair? I debated the idea for a couple of weeks, polling my tribe. I had a reference picture of singer Kelis in her blonde era to help sell the idea. My friends loved it.
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