a collection of unrelated items makes a post, yes?

[semiramis]

• A drunk girl fell on me as I was on the way to get some dinner. We both stumbled awkwardly into some sidewalk bushes and I was horrified because she went down and didn't get back up and I thought she was seriously injured, but then her friend was like NO DON'T APOLOGIZE, SHE'S FINE, THANK YOU FOR HELPING US THAT MAN WAS GOING TO TAKE HER AND I

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[harukami]

Huh, I've usually heard "passing" in a different context -- not being detected for not biologically being your identity. ex, a FtM passing as biologically male meaning that other people assume they're biologically male and their female-bodiedness is left out of their interactions as a result. I've never seen it used for a mismatch before but for extremely effective performance OF your identity.

[semiramis]

...now that I think of it, yes, I've heard it used that way as well, but the identity-performance mismatch definition is more salient to me because I hear it used almost exclusively that way in academic discussions of race, which is somewhat irrelevant to this. Hmm :|a

[harukami]

It might be used differently in the two academic branches? I've heard that much more as presentation or performance (as in "performance theory" approaches to all human behavior). Huh. Maybe it has to do with visibility-?

[semiramis]

You mean between gender studies and ethnic studies? Could be. I mean, given--a good majority of the relevant literature I've read on the topic is from prior the mid twentieth century, which certainly predates the current conceptions of identity and biology/heredity, so it's also possible that my lexical map is out of whack, hahaha. On the other hand, it's also true that biology in race is a very difficult question to answer, particularly compared to "what is the configuration of your X and/or Y chromosomes", and most of the biological studies on the subject published in the last, oh, decade or so seem to be more along the lines of "look how useless race is as a biological category!" So it would make sense that ethnic studies tend to leave the question of biology alone more than gender studies do.

AT ANY RATE, I'LL PUT IN AN ADDENDUM.