Hilary Mantel
I'm thinking about reviving this journal as a tentative step towards getting back to writing about my day to day life.
I was on Twitter today for work (not in a personal capacity) and came across the following extract from an interview with Hilary Mantel. I thought it was worth sharing. If anyone reads this and is moved to respond, all points of ( Read more... )
Berte, hello! *squishes* As I said up there, to Bel, I'm so sorry I missed this at the time. Thank you for the feedback!
Hilary Mantel was a brilliant woman. One day I will get around to reading her other books.
I agree with you about "woundism" - what a great term.
"I wouldn't call that guy a woman, I'd say he's a guy with a feminine identity (or something like that), but I can't see how denying biology is the way to go."
Hear hear. We are on the same page :).
As for me, I am a woman and was not always happy to be so. I guess what I did with that was use those feelings to explore what it was that felt wrong about myself and read a lot of feminist and other theory to try and figure out the puzzle. With the result that I got very bogged down in postmodernist and psychoanalytic theories that were not always helpful. It actually terrifies me what might have happened to me as a child growing up in a rather feral state if social media and the malignant forces that prey on vulnerable teens online had been around then. It's rather a miracle that I survived as it is, and that I didn't become anorexic, which was the 80s equivalent of the transgender trend. I was a poster child for self-harm and suicidal ideation before those ideas entered the lexicon. So I feel a bit strongly about this, hehe - about as strongly as JKR I would guess.
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