Comments on: This is where I came in and other transgressions. http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/this-is-where-i-came-in-and-other-transgressions/ Thoughts on feminism Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:55:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Cheshire http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/this-is-where-i-came-in-and-other-transgressions/#comment-110 Cheshire Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:07:29 +0000 http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-110 Wow, I just wandered onto this blog and this piece really grabbed me, it was wonderful. Wow, I just wandered onto this blog and this piece really grabbed me, it was wonderful.

]]> By: simply wondered http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/this-is-where-i-came-in-and-other-transgressions/#comment-99 simply wondered Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:37:44 +0000 http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-99 wow! just wow, really. what a great piece about identity and love and community. breathless and bereft of words (well mostly...) reading it, but thanks. (oh yeah - wow) keep weaving. wow! just wow, really. what a great piece about identity and love and community. breathless and bereft of words (well mostly…) reading it, but thanks.
(oh yeah – wow)
keep weaving.

]]> By: Laura http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/this-is-where-i-came-in-and-other-transgressions/#comment-90 Laura Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:02:28 +0000 http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-90 Good luck :-) Good luck :-)

]]> By: Winter http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/this-is-where-i-came-in-and-other-transgressions/#comment-89 Winter Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:45:47 +0000 http://thenectarine.wordpress.com/?p=27#comment-89 I came in the other way -- read the feminism first and then the queer theory. While the feminism helped me make sense of a lot of things that have happened in my life, if I'm honest I think the queer/lesbian/gay/trans theory was more life saving because it really spoke to my experience and had an incredibly affirmative affect on me. <i>for most of my life I have been very fractured and I have only recently, like in the last year been able to start weaving myself back together. Its time to start weaving the queer part of myself together with the radical feminist part of myself, so none of me, none of who I honestly am, gets left behind</i> I think any feminism that demands that people chop off and compartmentalize their experience/identity, either explicitly or implicitly, needs to be seriously challenged. And, sadly, I really feel that's the way mainstream feminism goes a lot of the time. It's so important to resist this because women have always have to fracture themselves in various ways to survive. Also, if you've been wounded in such a way as to cause a fracturing of your identity, as happens in ptsd, it's so important that feminism doesn't re-affirm that condition. I came in the other way — read the feminism first and then the queer theory. While the feminism helped me make sense of a lot of things that have happened in my life, if I’m honest I think the queer/lesbian/gay/trans theory was more life saving because it really spoke to my experience and had an incredibly affirmative affect on me.

for most of my life I have been very fractured and I have only recently, like in the last year been able to start weaving myself back together. Its time to start weaving the queer part of myself together with the radical feminist part of myself, so none of me, none of who I honestly am, gets left behind

I think any feminism that demands that people chop off and compartmentalize their experience/identity, either explicitly or implicitly, needs to be seriously challenged. And, sadly, I really feel that’s the way mainstream feminism goes a lot of the time. It’s so important to resist this because women have always have to fracture themselves in various ways to survive. Also, if you’ve been wounded in such a way as to cause a fracturing of your identity, as happens in ptsd, it’s so important that feminism doesn’t re-affirm that condition.

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