Have you thought about your gender today? I thought about mine today. I thought about the gender-binary; boy, girl. I thought about being gender-FUCKED.
How some girls I know could beat up some boys I know.
How some boys I know are better at dressing than some girls I know.
We're all a gender-fuck, huzzah! and I feel inspired and horrified! I JUST got back, via the most terrifying, darkest and longest cold sweat of a frantic bike ride from two towns over back to my house, in the woods, to write this to you all....
Before that, it was a SPRINT to catch MUNI line before CALTRAIN back out of San Francisco.
The spoken word performance I saw ran long. And BOY did it blow my mind. Do you know what spoken word is? Sometimes called def poetry, sometimes called slam poetry. Here, this is one of my favorite poets, Suheir Hammad. She's a lebanese-american, talking about 9/11 and DAMN the words she speaks are smarter than ANYTHING you heard on the news.
Well, tonight was all a part of the NATIONAL QUEER ARTS FESTIVAL 2009. Today's spoken word pieces were all about building community between queer trans women and the queer community.
So, dykes that tell a trans person that went from man to woman that they will NEVER belong, are RUDE. just like the immigration police. Or jim crow. Well. You should check out one blog in particular, from one of the performers. She had me weezy and terribly, terribly sad. I'll post it tomorrow!
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