OK, so that first post wasn't quite what I wanted it to be, mostly because I am a little scatterbrained. I am leaving it as is, because it is pretty representative of what it's like to live in my head. It's crowded in there, what with all the movie quotes and ideas for cakes I wanna make, chores I have to do, bus schedules and annoying commercial jingles.
First, I wanted to post a link to the Shakesville post that inspired me to start this project. Here's a quote for the TL;DR crowd:
"Making the personal public and political is serious business. Because women's stories aren't told, it's incumbent upon female feminists to tell their own stories, to fill that void, to be unrepentant and loquacious raconteurs every chance we get, to talk about our bodies, our struggles, our triumphs, our needs, our lives in every aspect."
Apparently I don't know how to do block quotes here yet, either. This will all come in time (I hope). Anyways, I figure that as a big ol' queer, and also a lady, and many other things that aren't usually included as options on forms, I might add my voice to the "cacophony".
Now, I do intend to moderate comments here. I want this to be a relatively safe space, so I won't allow any slurs, I would like to avoid ableist language, etc. If you make an assy comment, I'll probably remove it. Take that as you will.
I do intend to include and encourage frank discussion on whatever I post by whoever would like to join in and can handle being respectful of others despite the relative anonymity inherent in posting in the blaggerwebs. To warn folks, this might include, and certainly won't be limited to: women's experiences of sexism, GLBTQ folks' experiences of general hatefulness, and everyone's experiences of the things that go into, come out of, and happen regarding their bodies. These things will all be tagged and will be included in the titles of the posts, so feel free to avoid whatever skeeves you out/triggers you/offends you/whatevs.
Now, for some fun stuff! Here are some specific things I plan to bloggerize about in the next week or so:
-The reason for the name of this blog.
-Bein' a big ol' queer (identifying as a bisexual woman)
-The road to fat acceptance
-Periods.
-Fictional women I admire
-My growing interest in neo-pagan religions
-Rape culture
OK, some of that will be fun.
Hm. I guess that's all I want to say for now. Actually I wanna say all that stuff, too, but I'm pretty sure that if I just do all that, I will not get any sleep tonight and then I will be out of interesting stuff to say. If any of it even turns out interesting to begin with.
So tune in again if you're interested, and we will discuss stuff!
Haha, pace yourself. Nothing worse than talking too much and realising you've run out of topics for new posts (SO guilty of that).
ReplyDeleteI'm most interested in hearing what's to come with rape culture, because it's simply something I know next to nothing about - something that, although on the one hand I'm grateful for, on the other I realise that if attitudes about "taboo" subjects such as rape are ever going to change, we simply must get talking about it. So speak away! :)
Oh yeah, and why always refer to yourself as "big ol' queer"? You are neither big, nor ol'. Quite the opposite, in fact.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, Mag, when I say "rape culture", I'm talking about the way that rape is so built into our society that boys and men are socialised to believe that women have no right to bodily autonomy. Rape culture is responsible for cat calls on the street, for the "she was asking for it" defense against rape (which has worked in courts in the past), and rape apologists (see the Polanski petition signed by tons of famous people, including women).
ReplyDeleteI'll get into all of that in detail in the post.
As far as calling myself a big ol' queer, I'm plenty conscious that I'm not big (this will also be addressed in my post on fat acceptance) or old. I guess it's just in there to keep the tone light. That's pretty much how I roll most of the time, tone-wise.