It is nearly impossible to be a Dusty Lady and not have your body become a canvas of comments, critiques and opinions; specifically the one’s you didn’t ask for. You know the ones by orthodox ladies — and sometimes, not so orthodox people — who say things like, “I liked it better when your face [...]
All posts for the month December, 2010
The Landscape Ahead: Who Will Identify The Individual?
Identity—the very essence of who we are and how we interact with others—is in the middle of a period of extraordinary tumult. The Internet and a host of new communications technologies have transformed the concept of identity and redefined our relationships to businesses, governments and constantly churning networks of friends and peers. Growing numbers of digital natives [...]
Posted by sexgenderbody on December 22, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/the-landscape-ahead-who-will-identify-the-individual/
Breathing As The ‘Eternal She’
As a DustyLady who completely and absolutely hates restrictive dichotomies, more often than not I’m squeezed into a tiny box of stereotypes so tight I eventually grow claustrophobic and completely disinterested, barely an inch away from completely disengaging myself from these situations. As Women Of The Broken World, we’re supposed to be either poor, limitless, undeniably open to possession [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 17, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/breathing-as-the-eternal-she/
Tales This Tongue Didn’t Twist
There is a story my father likes to tell when people ask him what his eldest daughter wants to do ‘with her life’. It seems that I was 13 and determined when I’d interrupted his important business call to say, “When I grow up, I’ll be a famous Lady Author” with hands on my hips [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 14, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/tales-this-tongue-didnt-twist/
Build Me My FatherLand
My father is a bit of a history buff; and I get my obsession with mapping events from him. However, when it comes to seeing history as a linear pattern of events, we part ways. My idea of history is too ‘messy’ for him, as I tend to always look at Subaltern points of view — or [...]
Posted by Jaded on December 23, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/build-me-my-fatherland/