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[transubsituated]

Thanksgiving break starting sooooon.

I found a section from Judith Halberstam's Female Masculinities which addresses "The Bathroom Problem"! It's exciting because I might use it in personal writing (writing that's not for a class, imagine that). I just think the Bathroom as a gendered public sphere that pushes and pulls the problematic to the

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[starfrosting]

yknow, I'm not coming up with anything right now...Then again, I'm braindead with another 5 pages of this g-ddamn paper to write so there you go. I'm sure makezine.org has some writings about bathrooms.

What is North Carolina SSM?

And I love that section of the essay. "It would be a mistake to say I'm against it." So wry!

[transubsituated]

Braindead? Yes. Me too.

NCSSM is the NC School of Science and Math, my home and school for the two years before I came here. I made it sound pretty bad in this post, but it was actually good in some ways, and it was fun getting around the rules. Gender trouble there was also very interesting.

I hope I can write that some day, or have to write it some day..."It'd be a mistake to say I'm against heterosexuality, I mean, no, it's fine, or let me explain..." haha.

Have a great break! We'll come up with some nebulous but ultra-cool topic for when we get back I'm sure.

[_ruse]

You might try posting on gender_theory with a query about bathroom issues. I'm sure it's been written about. I don't do much with trans stuff so I'm pretty much at a loss, sorry!

[transubsituated]

No problem, if I do end up writing something about bathroom issues/trouble I'll do that.

What is your main area of interest, if you don't mind my asking?

[_ruse]

Right now I'm working with social, cultural and psyhical formations of homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in England and the appropriation of the Other to recognise one's own otherness, &c.

I do a lot of work with psychoanalysis and queer-related topics as well though: literary, cultural, cineamtic, etc., and have written and published on a broad range of things.

from an ncssm alumna

[anonymous]

Heterocentric rose-givings, indeed! Glad someone else felt uncomfortable with this archaic ritual particularly unsuited to a school like S&M. Not that discomfort at the time was good, but perhaps one day some brave spurred souls will DO something to change it. I'm thinking just now of Adrienne Rich's "Compulsive Heterosexuality"...

Re: from an ncssm alumna

[transubsituated]

Oh yes, Adrienne Rich...classic. Just the tip of the iceberg of illuminative queer writings, for me.
Who are you? Or like...did you know me, or where did you live, etc.