I’d taken out a drawer to rearrange its contents, and heard a yowl when I went to put it back in.
Twofer
Two reasons I want Obama to win the nomination:
- Students in the South Bronx are inspired by him
- He knows from LGBT issues (despite his political assessment of trans inclusion)
Still, I think he’s paying attention in ways other politicians don’t. & I’ll be honest, the degree of entitlement being expressed by the Clinton campaign – as if she is the only possible nominee – just pisses me off.
The Pregnant Man Show
Thomas Beattie (the pregnant man) and his wife Nancy are on Oprah now.
He is just cute as pie, which is a good thing – charming, pretty articulate, bashful in a perfectly masculine way.
(Go Chris!)
Hitchens vs. Hitchens: On God, War, Politics, and Culture – Brothers Christopher and Peter Hitchens are set for their first public debate, this Thursday, April 3, at 7:30 p.m. at Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They plan to debate on numerous topics, from religion to Iraq.There will be a live Webcast of Hitchens vs Hitchens available at: http://www.allpresidents.org and http://www.cfimichigan.org. Continue reading “(Go Chris!)”
Reading Time
Is there ever enough time for reading? I’m reading about four books at once just now:
- Third Wave Agenda
– third wave feminism
- Men Speak Out
- Quartered Safe Out Here
- The Day the Earth Caved In
I didn’t find much time to read anything other than the essays I’d assigned when I was teaching, so I wonder, if after teaching a while, the grading gets easier & you get in more reading time.
The good thing about writing is that you tend to go on overdrive, and read and write and write and read and it’s like you never get tired. The problem is that you really don’t want to deal with the rest of the world, for dinners with friends or class reunions or whatever on your social calendar bids you.
Not that anyone I know should take that personally.
One of the things that’s beckoning me toward Wisconsin is that there isn’t so much to do, and for a writer approaching middle age, that sounds perfectly perfect. (Now I just need to win that lottery, so I can pull a J.D. Salinger. Except I’ll publish what I’m writing, of course.)
Unequal Opportunity
A woman in the US military is more likely to be raped or sexually harassed by a fellow serviceman, CO, or even a military doctor than she is to be killed in Iraq…
…reported Keith Olbermann tonight.
Horrifying, and backed up by Jane Harman in The LA Times.
Trans-script
Betty: I don’t have any great desire for a cooter.
Helen: Good, neither do I.
Marlett v. Kern
It looks like that homophobe Sally Kern is going to have to fight to keep her seat. It’s such a good thing to see when the whole idea of democracy actually works: you don’t like what someone has to say, you run against her.
Hopefully Marlett will win. My guess is that he will get significant LGBT funding if he manages this right.
(thanks to Caprice for the story.)
Novel
So I’m working on a novel these days. & That’s all I’m saying for now.
Constructing Your “Woman”
Lena Dahlstrom posted a video on the mHB message boards made by the Feminist Majority Foundation called “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” and the women in it reminded me, once again, that I don’t feel femme-y enough in either style or presentation and reminded me as well that I’m offended by this PR campaign to convince people that feminists aren’t awful, ugly, fat, hairy women. So when another partner commented about being the resident “big hairy dyke” I thought, “me too.”
I’m aware that others see me as smaller than I see myself, or at least tell me they do, and of course I wax or hide most of my hairiness. Most people wouldn’t think of me as a dyke but I have for a while now, even if I’m still cautious about adopting a lesbian identity out of respect for those who are lesbian-identified and who might see me as something of an interloper. But dyke is an identity I’ve become comfortable with since I think it suits me (no pun intended) & in a lot of ways frees me. (I use ‘het dyke’, too, when it seems right.)
You all know the joke about what women would be like in a world without men, right?
Answer: Fat, hairy, and happy. Continue reading “Constructing Your “Woman””