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I had enough sleep but still got out of bed only at 10am.
This sun setting thing at 7pm or something is throwing me off or something. I'm taking forever to wind down from the day so I sleep later, and wake up later.
Submitted just in time to Steam-Powered 2, and now to work on a paper for Queer and Trans Theory, due next Thursday. I started reading stuff today but it was SO DEPRESSING having to plow through all these cisgender writers writing about trans issues and.... a lot of stuff just seemed really problematic.
My paper is going to be on Virginia Woolf's Orlando. I'm not sure what exactly my argument is, but basically, I was really uncomfortable with the prof saying it has potential to be a trans text (and a couple times he did actually call it a trans text) but the thing is, I don't see it as a trans text? Not a transgender one, anyway. It has transgender themes, but not really a whole lot. It's really a book about writing. I personally hate this book. But then, I dislike a LOT of stuff I've had to read from the Modernist era. I see it as a lesbian text, and I see it as a trans-genre, satirical piece, but not a trans one. The fact that I can find just about NOTHING from the transgender/transsexual community on Orlando (besides Jan Morris' biography, and that was... I don't know, there was a lot of very gender-normative stuff in there) just tells me that it's not really a text that reflects trans experiences that much.
So... I think first I'll explore what kinds of transgender issues that Woolf DOES tackle, then go on to interrogate whether or not it pushes the limits enough in terms of how much work it does on queer issues (there's that bit where Orlando, now a woman, cross-dresses to look like a man and picks up) and then go into the implications of a cisperson writing a text which has a kind of a magical sex change trope attached to it.
I mean, I know in class I had a discussion about how it's almost like a piece of spec fic and SO THESE THINGS HAPPEN but I just am not comfortable with that IT'S SPEC FIC ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN stuff, even if it IS a piece of Modernist crap. I'm going to read stuff about language tomorrow, and then start outlining my paper. But right now I'm going to tackle the databases again. Blah.
This sun setting thing at 7pm or something is throwing me off or something. I'm taking forever to wind down from the day so I sleep later, and wake up later.
Submitted just in time to Steam-Powered 2, and now to work on a paper for Queer and Trans Theory, due next Thursday. I started reading stuff today but it was SO DEPRESSING having to plow through all these cisgender writers writing about trans issues and.... a lot of stuff just seemed really problematic.
My paper is going to be on Virginia Woolf's Orlando. I'm not sure what exactly my argument is, but basically, I was really uncomfortable with the prof saying it has potential to be a trans text (and a couple times he did actually call it a trans text) but the thing is, I don't see it as a trans text? Not a transgender one, anyway. It has transgender themes, but not really a whole lot. It's really a book about writing. I personally hate this book. But then, I dislike a LOT of stuff I've had to read from the Modernist era. I see it as a lesbian text, and I see it as a trans-genre, satirical piece, but not a trans one. The fact that I can find just about NOTHING from the transgender/transsexual community on Orlando (besides Jan Morris' biography, and that was... I don't know, there was a lot of very gender-normative stuff in there) just tells me that it's not really a text that reflects trans experiences that much.
So... I think first I'll explore what kinds of transgender issues that Woolf DOES tackle, then go on to interrogate whether or not it pushes the limits enough in terms of how much work it does on queer issues (there's that bit where Orlando, now a woman, cross-dresses to look like a man and picks up) and then go into the implications of a cisperson writing a text which has a kind of a magical sex change trope attached to it.
I mean, I know in class I had a discussion about how it's almost like a piece of spec fic and SO THESE THINGS HAPPEN but I just am not comfortable with that IT'S SPEC FIC ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN stuff, even if it IS a piece of Modernist crap. I'm going to read stuff about language tomorrow, and then start outlining my paper. But right now I'm going to tackle the databases again. Blah.