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| ZZZTT!!! |
| 08.31.03 (6:55 am) [edit] |
I went to zapping (electrlosysis) yesterday afternoon ... I got my face cleared but my daily experiences read like a horror novel:
- spend two days without shaving so I can grow out the hair
- go to my appointment as a bearded woman
- the train ran into difficulties so it took me more than an hour to get there
- 90 minutes of having a hot needle shoved in my face
- a storm starts during the appointment
- the radio announces a weather emergency
- asking, I am told 'usually' the machine just turns off if there is a power hit
- pay a good fee for the appointment
- another extended train trip home
- the swelling is still going down
I have lost count of how many hours I have done as I start approaching my third year of doing this. Right now I am only doing one 90 minute session a month due to finances, but I was doing 2.5 hours/week at one point.
After all of this, I still pursue the goal of cleaning my face. It just strikes me as ridiculous when some people think those who would go through this for years are NOT transsexuals.
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| NOW what button did I press? |
| 08.30.03 (5:22 am) [edit] |
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Last night I was vieing my stats page and I had 1 comment on my first 4 blogs ... then I hit refresh and had zero comments ... huh?
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| Ah That Is Goooood Energy |
| 08.29.03 (4:29 pm) [edit] |
I just finished eating my dinner out on the deck
of our appartment. A storm was passing so I had a nice
atmosphere out there to be in. The question I started thinking of was what
would be more correct: to refer to it as energy because I am Wiccan or
to use the word ionization because I was planning to be a physicist many
moons ago? Actually, 'energy' would probably do for both cases. Gee, is it
TOO obvious that I like playing around with language?
I had signed a sentence to Andrea (she is Deaf) and included the
sign for 'energy' after looking it up in a sign language dictionary.
My signing is pretty bad, so I was shocked (no pun intended :) ) when she
was able to guess what the sign was even though I had never used before.
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| More on language |
| 08.28.03 (10:40 am) [edit] |
I am heading out in a few hours to do some volunteering at the FMF (Feminist Majority Foundation). It seems that lately I have been doing a lot of volunteering with various places ... I have had a few weeks where I put in 20-30 hours at 3 or 4 different organizations (more if I count travel time). I just like doing things to help.
This brings up an interesting point: is this much volunteering an addiction? It aggrees with Webster's definition, which also points out that an addiction can be good, but usually is not.
Interesting how slippery the language gets: even knowing the context, I am sure many people had a negative reaction when I first used the word 'addiction'. If this was written in an earlier age that would not be the case that it is today.
This particular example has me thinking of the show 'Red Dwarf' and the positive luck viruses. For people who have not seen it, it is a brittish comedy sci-fi show, and in one episode they discover viruses for luck and sexual magnetism.
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| the politics of language |
| 08.27.03 (9:00 am) [edit] |
For those of you unaware, there were several attacks on transwomen here in DC last week, 2 of which were fatal.
While all of it was going on, people in the various trans communities (both here and elsewhere) were sharing news of the situation. Now that we are not in a purely reactionary mode, what seems to be the biggest issue people are discussing when there is direct violence against us? Language.
Ok, some ways the media refers to trans people are inexusable, but the one that people are complaining about the most is whether the word 'transgender' is a noun or an adjective. In the communities directly affected (Latina and African-American) it is proper to say "a transgender" whereas other communities would say the murdered people were "transgendered women". What we have is a case of one culture trying to say that it's norms apply to other cultures ... and we all know how well that went with the Native Americans.
Language is a function of where/when/who you are. If you speak the Queen's English in Harlem you better have your running shoes on. Simmilarly, using ebonics on Wall Street will not project the right image there.
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| a start .... hopefully |
| 08.27.03 (6:43 am) [edit] |
lesse ... just HOW many times have I tried to keep a diary since I was a kid? and how often did I give up soon thereafter? :)
Hopefully I will do a bit better this time with blogging
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