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I am a university student living in the Austin, Texas area. I graduated in May '07 with a BS in Applied Sociology.
I start a thesis-track sociology M.A. program in the Fall. I plan then to get my PhD in Sociology or Queer/Gender Studies and teach/research at a college level. I also begin a 2-year graduate assistanthip in the Spring of '08, which I am sure I will be blogging about! I hope to be a writer the entire time -- both of fiction and social commentary. I don't think I'm too idealistic. Do you?
There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... Identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.
-- Judith Butler
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
-- Judith Butler
But the biggest problem of all in the pop psychology approach to masculinity is its nostalgia, a persistent belief that solutions to the problems of men can be found by looking backwards. Pop psychology idealizes a pre-industrial past (a mythical one, in fact) when men knew how to be men, women knew how to be mothers, and there was not homosexuality or equal opportunity legislation to muddy the waters. Hence the weird result that pop psychologists' solution to the current problems of alienation and misunderstandings between men and women is often to argue for MORE gender segregation...we cannot solve contemporary problems by nostalgia. We need new and more democratic patterns in relations, not re-runs of discredited patriarchies.
-- R.W. Connell
And I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings
As my fingers press onto the strings
In yet another clumsy chord
Haligh, haligh, an awful lie
This weight will now be satisfied
I'm gonna give you only one reply
I know not who I am
But I talk in the mirror
To the stranger that appears
Our conversations are circles
Always one sided
Nothing is clear
Except we keep coming back
To this meaning that I lack
He says the choices were given
Now you must live them
Or just not live
But do you want that?
-- Bright Eyes, Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive...
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an's mute
If you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth still
They're pouring over Sanskrit on the Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun
--Bright Eyes, Four Winds
I am not an angry girl
but it seems like I've got everyone fooled
every time I say something they find hard to hear
they chalk it up to my anger
and never to their own fear
and imagine you're a girl
just trying to finally come clean
knowing full well they'd prefer you
were dirty and smiling
-- Ani Difranco, Not a Pretty Girl
Go ahead, push your luck
Find out how much love the world can hold
Once upon a time I had control
And reigned my soul in tight
Well the whole truth
It's like the story of a wave unfurled
But I held the evil of the world
So I stopped the tide
Froze it up from inside
And it felt like a winter machine
That you go through and then
You catch your breath and winter starts again
And everyone else is spring bound
-- Dar Williams, After All
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