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Poetry Fishbowl Report for July 5, 2016

Jul 28, 2016 20:49

This month's theme was "Is there a word for that feeling?" I worked from 12:15 PM to 6 AM, so about 15 hours 45 minutes, allowing for lunch and supper breaks. I wrote 9 poems on Tuesday and another 16 later in the week, for a total of 25.

Participation was a little higher, with 38 comments on LiveJournal and another 45 on Dreamwidth. Please ( Read more... )

reading, wildlife, writing, weblit, fishbowl, poetry, cyberfunded creativity

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rhodielady_47 July 29 2016, 09:19:48 UTC

I read your poem "With the Gravity Off" this evening.
It's an excellent poem.
Poems like this one help those of us who have no idea how someone like Austin experiences the world, begin to understand.

Do people like Austin understand that normals sometimes feel lost wondering how to adapt themselves to people like Austin?
:^}

Thank you! ysabetwordsmith July 29 2016, 09:45:58 UTC

>> I read your poem "With the Gravity Off" this evening.
It's an excellent poem.<<

Yay! I'm glad you liked it.

>> Poems like this one help those of us who have no idea how someone like Austin experiences the world, begin to understand. <<

\o/ Comments like this make me feel like I've done my job as a bard.

>> Do people like Austin understand that normals sometimes feel lost wondering how to adapt themselves to people like Austin?
:^} ... )

Re: Thank you! ng_moonmoth July 29 2016, 18:34:40 UTC

>> emembering which goes with whom is currently a memorized feature like names, something I am bad at, rather than being able to look at their clothes or hairdo and know which to use. <<

...which is a problem that smacks me in the face every day. I know where the space I would like to occupy in the landscape of gender expression lies. Right now, it is very tightly bounded by expressions that appear to mark me as my birth gender, "joke", "fraud", and "freak". Plus probably a few other things I haven't observed yet. It's pretty deserted, and many of those who might wish to join me here wind up on the other side of those boundaries. I'd like to think that I can find an expression that says "nope" to people who would wrongly categorize me, but it's hard in an environment where essentially nothing is categorized in a way that allows me to assert my gender identity. Maybe this will evolve over time. Maybe I can contribute to that evolution.

Re: Thank you! ysabetwordsmith July 29 2016, 18:54:46 UTC

>> ...which is a problem that smacks me in the face every day.<<

*hugs offered* That really sucks.

>> I know where the space I would like to occupy in the landscape of gender expression lies. Right now, it is very tightly bounded by expressions that appear to mark me as my birth gender, "joke", "fraud", and "freak". Plus probably a few other things I haven't observed yet. <<

>_<

>> It's pretty deserted, and many of those who might wish to join me here wind up on the other side of those boundaries.... )

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