Meme Time!!!
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eumeliaReply to this meme by yelling "Words!".
I will then give you five words that remind me of you.
Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
These are the words![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
whereisjoy gave me:
1. Gender Studies
When I was in seventh grade some boys were making disparaging remarks about girls and I stood up to them and told them that what they were saying was offensive and that it was Chauvinistic.
They retorted by "name-calling" me "Feminist".
I said, "Um, yeah, I am", I was twelve at the time.
"Feminists are just chauvinistic girls"
I replied with a temper "No, being a feminist is knowing that girls are just as good as boys".
They laughed in my face.
Ten years later I'm studying why and how we come to have conversations like that. How the "boy" gender works, how the "girl" gender works, why everyone works really hard enacting them, perpetuating them, how good they feel at times and how utterly miserable they can make us.
To me, the ideas of Feminism and Post-Modern thinking about the construction of gender cannot be disentangled.
Gender studies for me is my little corner of liberation in a system that is generally oppressive.
2. Israel
Israel means a big ole' can of worms.
It means home.
It means prison.
It means privilege.
It means context.
It means admiring the fireworks on the Independence Day and crying at the same time.
It means unlearning more than I ever thought I'd ever have to... I'm still unlearning.
It means that Out There I'm hated for being what I was historically persecuted for.
It means that In Here I am an Oppressor.
It means mind-fuck.
It means family, friends and foreign people.
It means language barrier.
It means a concrete barrier.
It means a(n un)holy land.
It means I get a say in what it should be.
It means where I grew up.
It means where I want to stay.
It means a lot.
3. Activism
This is something I do not do enough of. I go to demos and write about the things that piss me off and what I think should change.
Generally speaking, I try to voice shake up what many would consider "the way it is".
I think that's important, even if the effects are not immediate.
I'm provocative even when I'm not doing it deliberately.
Sometimes I do it deliberately.
I think and I try to act.
I don't know how well I do.
4. Torchwood
*giggle*
I love Torchwood and generally speaking, Torchwood loves me.
If Buffy was like an older Feminist sister who taught me to be who I am, then Torchwood is like my Queer best friend who helps me express who I am.
If I was to get really deeply into what Torchwood means to me this entry would be far too long.
5. Fangirl!
Personally, I prefer Fangrrl (because grrl and boi don't have to be assigned to specific genders, imo).
I've been told that while I am small (I'm 1.57 metres tall, that 5"2 as far as I'm aware), I am far bigger on the inside (Who!Reference is WIN!) because of the Fangrrl monster who lives inside me.
I've been into Sci-Fi/Fan since I was seven and generally I obsess over television, film and literature that fall under that umbrella.
I go to the local Cons, talk about it, write about, obsess about. I first learned to analyse stuff through Terry Pratchett whose whole Discworld series is Meta for different forms of literature even if it started as Fantasy. Sandman and Dune taught me the nature of myth.
Buffy taught me who I should be.
Harry Potter showed me that the point of view written in not necessarily the only one or even the best one (I hate Dumbeldore, I was happy when Sirius died, I think Hermione sells herself short by settling on Ron, I think Harry needs therapy, that Snape was emasculated continuously despite the only consistently noble character and that Tonks and Lupin were put together in order to cover the fact that they are both Queer as Fuck!).
*cough*
So, yeah.
I will then give you five words that remind me of you.
Then post them in your LJ and explain what they mean to you.
These are the words
whereisjoy gave me:1. Gender Studies
When I was in seventh grade some boys were making disparaging remarks about girls and I stood up to them and told them that what they were saying was offensive and that it was Chauvinistic.
They retorted by "name-calling" me "Feminist".
I said, "Um, yeah, I am", I was twelve at the time.
"Feminists are just chauvinistic girls"
I replied with a temper "No, being a feminist is knowing that girls are just as good as boys".
They laughed in my face.
Ten years later I'm studying why and how we come to have conversations like that. How the "boy" gender works, how the "girl" gender works, why everyone works really hard enacting them, perpetuating them, how good they feel at times and how utterly miserable they can make us.
To me, the ideas of Feminism and Post-Modern thinking about the construction of gender cannot be disentangled.
Gender studies for me is my little corner of liberation in a system that is generally oppressive.
2. Israel
Israel means a big ole' can of worms.
It means home.
It means prison.
It means privilege.
It means context.
It means admiring the fireworks on the Independence Day and crying at the same time.
It means unlearning more than I ever thought I'd ever have to... I'm still unlearning.
It means that Out There I'm hated for being what I was historically persecuted for.
It means that In Here I am an Oppressor.
It means mind-fuck.
It means family, friends and foreign people.
It means language barrier.
It means a concrete barrier.
It means a(n un)holy land.
It means I get a say in what it should be.
It means where I grew up.
It means where I want to stay.
It means a lot.
3. Activism
This is something I do not do enough of. I go to demos and write about the things that piss me off and what I think should change.
Generally speaking, I try to voice shake up what many would consider "the way it is".
I think that's important, even if the effects are not immediate.
I'm provocative even when I'm not doing it deliberately.
Sometimes I do it deliberately.
I think and I try to act.
I don't know how well I do.
4. Torchwood
*giggle*
I love Torchwood and generally speaking, Torchwood loves me.
If Buffy was like an older Feminist sister who taught me to be who I am, then Torchwood is like my Queer best friend who helps me express who I am.
If I was to get really deeply into what Torchwood means to me this entry would be far too long.
5. Fangirl!
Personally, I prefer Fangrrl (because grrl and boi don't have to be assigned to specific genders, imo).
I've been told that while I am small (I'm 1.57 metres tall, that 5"2 as far as I'm aware), I am far bigger on the inside (Who!Reference is WIN!) because of the Fangrrl monster who lives inside me.
I've been into Sci-Fi/Fan since I was seven and generally I obsess over television, film and literature that fall under that umbrella.
I go to the local Cons, talk about it, write about, obsess about. I first learned to analyse stuff through Terry Pratchett whose whole Discworld series is Meta for different forms of literature even if it started as Fantasy. Sandman and Dune taught me the nature of myth.
Buffy taught me who I should be.
Harry Potter showed me that the point of view written in not necessarily the only one or even the best one (I hate Dumbeldore, I was happy when Sirius died, I think Hermione sells herself short by settling on Ron, I think Harry needs therapy, that Snape was emasculated continuously despite the only consistently noble character and that Tonks and Lupin were put together in order to cover the fact that they are both Queer as Fuck!).
*cough*
So, yeah.
