A few weeks ago, Touch Performance Art did a workshop production of "Sexyback: or what you will" at Club Oberon.The website said 8pm. Doors didn't even open until 8:07, and the show didn't start until ~8:35 (because not only do you have to wait for everyone to get in, but you want everyone to buy drinks). Le sigh -- I forget what Club Oberon ( Read more... )

Someone posted to LJ:I'm directing a gender swapped production of Taming of the Shrew being done in Arlington on March 22, 28 and 29. We've got the men playing the women's parts and vice versa. Some people view Shrew as a misogynistic, outdated play. The experiment I wanted to try was whether by swapping the roles it becomes simply a love story ( Read more... )

FCS

I was surprised that Thom W. took so long to teach us "Uyai mose (Come All You People)," as I feel really familiar with this Zimbabwean song, but maybe I know it from e.g. Convo.

Apparently we're doing a summer book series, and Molly started off with Where the Wild Things Are. (fox1013, I thought of you ( Read more... )

I woke up at like 6am this morning and got to go back to sleep :D I got up around 9 and had a leisurely morning ( Read more... )

seen on facebook this morning:

(1) The Naked I: Monologues from Beyond the Binary
OMG I love this show so much! (I saw it when it debuted at Smith and then again at UMass Amherst)
returns to Smith (Hillyer Hall) Tuesday, March 23 @ 7:30pm
Also: Social Justice Week (sometimes I love my alma mater)

(2) Australia may have made gender history this ( Read more... )

Dreams this morning included Jenny (my brother's fiancee) having a trans sibling.  She kept saying "he" and then she said something that made me think the sibling had been born "he" and so I said, "Oh, SHE's trans," and Jenny was v. confused, and I kept insistently asking, "What gender was your sibling assigned at birth?" (knowing that I could just ( Read more... )

[GoodReads]

I added this to my GoodReads after reading Lee Wind's review. Then mjules read it, and had comments which reminded me of Ari's complaints about Luna. So I was pleasantly surprised by the protagonist's reactions overall. (Also, I really liked that he almost always referred to Sage as "she," even when he was first feeling all, "Ugh, Sage is ( Read more... )

[GoodReads]

I reread this after having finally read Parrotfish. My mom got an ARC of this through work (and gave it to me, obv.), and I have barely any memories of that first reading experience ( Read more... )

[GoodReads♥ Yes, this book is About Being Trans, and it is Educating you the reader, but it's so good. (Caveat: The exoticization of one of the secondary characters made me uncomfortable.) Yes, things go much more easily happily than is likely realistic, but people deserve to see lives like theirs reflected in positive ways. The dead/evil ( Read more... )

Serendipitously, this morning's daily lectionary readings were: Isaiah 61:1-7 and Romans 7:1-6I saw FCS-Ian last night 'cause there was Council after Rest and Bread.  The copier's still broken, and he asked me if I still had the lectionary sheet* and I said yeah, not with me but at home, that I was planning to bring it to church and that I could ( Read more... )