Historian
Monday, August 22, 2005
As a graduate of History I often find myself thinking about the way we preserve our pasts. This goes both along the lines of personal as well as social history. I think about the things I have saved from my life, and they really only represent the last 6 years. My parent's collection spans far more than that, and yet they did not keep every toy I ever played with or every shirt I ever wore.
What about socially? Presidents build massive libraries to house the volumes of papers that may or may-never mean anything to the public they serve. Yet Governors do not, Senators do not, Representatives do not, and with exceptions in certain states most of these people serve longer. Our technology advances with leaps and bounds. Should we be keeping every microchip? Computer? Software program? Probably not, but then..
This begs the question, "how do we decide?" Clearly it can't just be anything we 'think' is important. Often the things that will be important are only understood as such in hindsight. Seriously, how often have you looked back and said "I wish I had kept (photographed/copied/etc) that." So, how do you decide?
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Lord of the Peeps
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
And for the geeks amongst us with too much time on thine hands.. a kindred spirit.
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Back to school
Saturday, August 13, 2005
With the recent influx of posts about queer rights and issues, one might think I was ramping up for a major pride event or something. However, nothing could be farther from the case. In all reality, for me, these things happen when the politics of being queer coincide with the programming of yet another Awareness Month at the ol' University. Which can mean only one thing - it is almost time to go back to school!
To my fans who have been adoring me from afar and waiting to see me again, I can't wait.
To those new readers who are driving the stat counter up by returning for more of ME on a regular basis, I am going to do my best to keep posing at least once a week. This way your weekly trips up the ol' Mountain won't be for naught.
YEAH! I am starting my second year of law school!
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Acceptance
Friday, August 05, 2005
Nothing pisses me off more than a queer who thinks the way to acceptance is for the flamboyant among us to be neither heard nor seen! I'm sorry, do they realize how incredibly, incredibly WRONG they are? Probably not.
Seriously, maybe I could site studies about how the more queers a straight person meets, the more likely their perception of queers is to be favorable? Maybe I could point out that were it not for some Drag Queens and Big Butch Lesbians at a bar in NYC in 1969 we wouldn't have the current Queer Rights Movement? Who knows, but in my humble opinion, we aren't going to get anywhere as a group unless WE QUEERS can accept each other for WHO WE ARE and not WHO WE WANT ONE ANOTHER TO BE.
This piggy backs on something we talk about her at this University in Safe Zone sessions. "If you want me to think that you are not ok with heterosexism, don't be afraid to be not ok with some other 'ism' like racism, sexism, or classism." The more accepting we can be as a society the better we are all going to be.
Bottom line, I am by no means a flaming queen and I work for acceptance and rights for GLBT persons both on campus and in my daily life. Therefore, you won't have to be a flaming queen to input your two cents either. I want to see you there fighting, speaking out, and being yourself just as much as I enjoy seeing the more flamboyant of our fellow activists doing the same.
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