allying and agency

[jacbar]

So, there's this seminar that SCC has every year, and I think often has two sessions of, as they do this year. It's essentially a cis woman (I think the wife of a crossdresser or trans woman) telling other women whether they pass. Part of me really wants to go -- un-made-up and boringly dressed as I normally am -- and ask if I pass. And part of me

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[kawaii_emily]

wait. go there. and ask a woman. if you pass? oh my god i am SO raged.

explain plz?

[jacbar]

Em, explain? Raged that the ridiculosity exists, or raged at the idea of a cis woman (me) coopting the experience of a trans woman to prove a point?

Also, I told E last night that I didn't think there was anything you could do to complain about it before the conference, but I now disagree with myself. Email everyone and everything you can find on the SCC website, and then after the conference, do it again. Write a letter and send it to their address, and call any number you can find.

Re: explain plz?

[kawaii_emily]

no no, raged that this exists. you should go there, of course, if you want, but i'm sure you pass just fine. i think the point you stand to make is a good one.

i was really really intoxicated last night and so not 100% lucid when i wrote this, so, sorry about that. i talked to E about this, though, and said if i remembered, i SHOULD complain about this. quite frankly, i had the scholarship app all filled out and just got too frightened to send it in, after hearing this or that.

but is there any information about this besides this entry here?

Re: explain plz?

[jacbar]

i don't think they've put up the descriptions yet, but there's always at least a paragraph description. you should send in your scholarship but write in it that you aren't wholly sure you'd want to go, if this is the kind of bs you'd be "offered."