Driving around running errands today, I overheard a midday discussion on the local NPR station (Baltimore’s WYPR 88.1) about same-sex marriage laws. It reminded me of a column I wrote for the WMU college paper about five years ago. I dug it up. I still believe in every word of it, despite more than two years into my own marriage. I’m reposting it here, unedited, in its entirety. Enjoy.
I was recently asked to write something about Bolivia’s foreign policy for e-IR, a new online international relations journal published by students at Oxford, University of Leicester, and the London School of Economics. The essay (“Bolivia’s New International Stage”) looks at the country’s international relations in the first two years of Evo’s government.
I’ve been meaning to post a note about my objections to the use of the term “race” when discussing Bolivian social politics (I prefer the term “ethnicity”). A brief report in today’s La Razón provides a great starting point: The Qhara Qhara “nation” was “reborn” yesterday.