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eumeliaYesterday was the first day of the 10th annual conference of LGBT studies and Queer theory at Tel-Aviv University, An Other Sex. The first panel was the most interesting to me... seeing as it was about Literature. Which is what I do.
The first lecture was about women-soldiers during the American Civil War, Monstrous Regiments for the win and all that, but it was really dry and I didn't enjoy it that much.
The second talk was about Lesbian Semiotics! Well, that's what I nicknamed it. It was actually about Lesbian encoding in Virginia Woolf's fiction, which was so brilliantly structured and presented I was profoundly moved. It helped that D (you know who you are) presented and was her regular brilliant herself.
I'm so proud of you!
The third talk was about Sarah Schulman's People in Trouble, of being a witness to a catastrophe and the link between being an artist and activist. It's not enough to put forth words, you have to do something about it. The history of ACT UP and the AIDS crisis as shown through this work of fiction and the way Schulman frames her role as a witness as an activist and author was brilliantly presented. The subject matter was very obviously of deep emotional importance to the presenter, as she couldn't hold back her emotional reaction to what she was talking about.
I felt very privileged to hear all these women speak.
The next panel was a round table talk regarding the attack at the gay youth centre in August (fuck it's been ten months) and I was asked to do simultaneous translation for the guest speaker - Prof. Heather Love - and it took a lot out of me. The subject matter was difficult, the social workers and young kids talking about their experiences, I did cry a bit while I took a break from talking into Prof. Love's ear.
I was also wiped out because I hadn't slept the night before.
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morin stayed up with me all night, proof reading, editing and working on my wording for my Pornography and Slash paper, which I handed in yesterday before the conference.
Zie rocked. I was basically a cheerleader for hir on the chat.
queenmab21 also did some editing for me beforehand. Thank you for being such awesome friends!
It was actually quite amazing to get feedback in real time and to be told that the paper is actually good. That some of my paragraphs were actually beautifully written.
*is heart warmed*
It's not so good that I need to be validated by others, but it feels good to be able to have some tell me, "you're good".
I named the paper: "Torchwood's Slash Fiction: Re-contextualisation as textual continuity as erotic continuity as transgressive text".
Yeah.
6100+ words of me blathering about Slash fiction, Jack/Ianto and how much fun it it.
I'm an aca-fen.
The first lecture was about women-soldiers during the American Civil War, Monstrous Regiments for the win and all that, but it was really dry and I didn't enjoy it that much.
The second talk was about Lesbian Semiotics! Well, that's what I nicknamed it. It was actually about Lesbian encoding in Virginia Woolf's fiction, which was so brilliantly structured and presented I was profoundly moved. It helped that D (you know who you are) presented and was her regular brilliant herself.
I'm so proud of you!
The third talk was about Sarah Schulman's People in Trouble, of being a witness to a catastrophe and the link between being an artist and activist. It's not enough to put forth words, you have to do something about it. The history of ACT UP and the AIDS crisis as shown through this work of fiction and the way Schulman frames her role as a witness as an activist and author was brilliantly presented. The subject matter was very obviously of deep emotional importance to the presenter, as she couldn't hold back her emotional reaction to what she was talking about.
I felt very privileged to hear all these women speak.
The next panel was a round table talk regarding the attack at the gay youth centre in August (fuck it's been ten months) and I was asked to do simultaneous translation for the guest speaker - Prof. Heather Love - and it took a lot out of me. The subject matter was difficult, the social workers and young kids talking about their experiences, I did cry a bit while I took a break from talking into Prof. Love's ear.
I was also wiped out because I hadn't slept the night before.
morin stayed up with me all night, proof reading, editing and working on my wording for my Pornography and Slash paper, which I handed in yesterday before the conference. Zie rocked. I was basically a cheerleader for hir on the chat.
queenmab21 also did some editing for me beforehand. Thank you for being such awesome friends!It was actually quite amazing to get feedback in real time and to be told that the paper is actually good. That some of my paragraphs were actually beautifully written.
*is heart warmed*
It's not so good that I need to be validated by others, but it feels good to be able to have some tell me, "you're good".
I named the paper: "Torchwood's Slash Fiction: Re-contextualisation as textual continuity as erotic continuity as transgressive text".
Yeah.
6100+ words of me blathering about Slash fiction, Jack/Ianto and how much fun it it.
I'm an aca-fen.
