Archive for the ‘vibe riffs’ Category
once in a while, on a roughly regular cycle, CP will descend from her mountain fastness, grumble a bit, then stomp off in a huff when her abrasions (intentional or not) are met with escalation and mutual righteousness. as each side trotted out their little frontier markers and set them up, i opined thusly:
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“i can’t transition until i see dr O.”
“i’m six feet tall and i’ll never pass and i’ll never be able to afford a visit to dr O.”
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on my daily metro ride to work, i sometimes see this really stunning black woman. very sleek features. a kind of vulpine beauty. this morning she said hello.
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line from my most recent TG/Bi awareness training gig:
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it occurs to me that successful woodworking is less a matter of gender performance than of class performance.
["woodworking" is one of those conventional words that has taken on an amusingly esoteric meaning in the highly insular world of trans experience.]
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i regularly find myself musing on what one might call the semiotics of gender… or put more simply, “the vibe”. following the nature of this blog as something of a notepad – as opposed to my prior site, where i felt constrained to post only finished thoughts – i will toss these notions and chimerae here in their purer form. these are not meant to be wellformed, whole ideas, but rather paintballs spattered forward to try to find an outline…. brief and discursive and incomplete.
i will note that presenting myself in this manner – raw and uncut, as it were – is not easy for me. i feel open.
but hey… time for a new paradigm, eh?
i’ve spent a chunk of time, off and on, subscribed to a yahoogroup called “transtheory”. i find it a very difficult group to stomach, due to the immense investment everyone there has in their thoroughly entrenched positions. in my experience, almost no one actually ever argues to persuade, much less actually learn.
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[ this entry is actually the last entry on my old site. i wrote it during the interim period between when i had blocked access to that collection of essays and when i finally opened this blog. it sort of fell into a black hole as a result. i'm posting it now to fill in that gap, and also to show (myself) how, in some small but important ways, my voice has changed.]
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