January 2011
Just started reading Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares: Queer Theory & American Kiddie Culture. In the introduction it cited MTV’s Celebrity Death Match. Do you guys remember that show? It was terrible, but I also really liked the gory clay-mation. Oh hey, things I had completely forgotten about.
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From NYTimes: Giving Alzheimer's Patients Their... →
It’s amazing to read this article and understand the idea of giving people things they like, treating them like human beings, can improve their health. Hey look, talking to people, trying to preserve their independence, letting them eat foods they like, finding out who they were and are - all of that helps. It helps prevent the use of unnecessary medication and restraint. It helps improve...
Notebooks
I started my last notebook on New Years Day of 2010. It’s still not full.
It’s a long notebook. I don’t know how long, but long, with narrow lines that I usually write on. It’s hard to fill that much space, especially when I do large parts of my drafting on the computer.
But I wish it was done. It’s satisfying to fill a notebook. And frustrating to still be in...
December 2010
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Just referred to my siblings as my mother’s “unsavory companions.”
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Straight (?) Talk with the Kids
Coming out to an elementary school age kid who has the concept of gay, and even to a certain extent the experience of it, is a strange experience. My middle sister has been friends with a boy with lesbian moms since basically she was born. I’ve spent most of her life keeping the idea of queer sexualities open, but not discussing them in any complicated way. And as such, she has talked...
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I have things I want to say.
I took out my notebook, thinking that at least if I was awake, I could write. I have things I want to write. But I’m in too much pain to write. Distracted and in pain and I can’t write the words I want to write.
I can’t say beautiful things right now.
Analytical things, maybe. Beautiful things, no.
Story Time
I am trying to tell a story that is really important to me. A story about the last Christmas that was happy. 2004. Holiday party at the preschool for kids with cerebral palsy that we use to go to as a confirmation class. And the little girl I was paired with that Christmas.
Her laughter was part of my last really good Christmas. You can bury good things in a lot of places, but that memory...
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Small Bird
Mom: there is a small bird in the house I will get him out later
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“I am trying to say that as femmes we found a way to create a sexual space for...”
– Joan Nestle, “Femme Tapes” 267
I really like Nestle’s analysis of both femme and butch in this quote. Femme as the creation of of both space and identity, and embodiment rather than dysphoria as a potential understanding for butch identity and how if functions as its own gender.
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Power to the Workers!
I am at least gratified in knowing that in the midst of all this snow chaos, there is worker solidarity. Clean-up has been slow because of promotion/overtime/job cuts in the sanitation department and the remaining workers are standing in solidarity with those workers and not filling in the gaps, etc. Doing their jobs, but not helping the sanitation department look any better publicly.
I like...
note to self: possible words to use instead of...
treeself:
-danika:
nonsensical wacky ridiculous illogical ludicrous preposterous absurd silly unbelievable incredible freaky bizarre feckless pointless futile outrageous strange peculiar weird impressive excessive wild irrational funny unusual
bolded the ones i already use on a semi-to-regular basis. woo!
I italicized the ones I use. Always trying to remember.
It is true
lgbtlaughs:
Sister: None of the lesbians I know wear plaid. Me: It’s a stereotype! A joke. Brother: How many lesbian do you know? Sister: [thinks] Six or seven. Brother: Yeah right. Sister: I do! Once you know one lesbian, you know them all. Me: That’s pretty much true, within a certain mile radius.
Femme's Guide to the Universe →
How did I not know this exists?
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Snowy Day
Mom: Now there’s a police car stuck in front of the house.
Dad: Oh. The kids just went out to play in the street.
We still haven’t been plowed. This cop car is stuck sliding around in front of our house. We don’t know where he’s going after that, because none of the immediately neighboring one-way street blocks have been plowed either.
Regardless, my sister and her...
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“We in America have come to equate morality with financial productivity and...”
– Russell, Marta. Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract. Common Courage Press: Monroe, Maine, 1998. 82.
Russell’s economic examination of the ways in which capitalism is used to reinforce the stigma of disability and intensify oppression is really interesting. ...
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