STILL SUFFOCATING

So, recording ‘Diamantina Drover’ the other day reminded me how much I enjoy sharing music, and got me in the mood to finish up a song I started on a while back. To listen to my slightly uncomplimentary song about the town in which I grew up, follow the link . . . Home.

HOPING YOU'LL BITE AND DRAG ME IN

Call for Submissions

Working Title: /Spilling Over:/ /A Fat, Queer Anthology/
Editor: Jessica Giusti, Feminist Studies Ph.D. Student, University of Minnesota
Contact: spillingover [at] gmail [dot] com
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2008

Despite the attention given by queer studies to the materiality of bodies and the cultural and social inscriptions that designate them, still a dearth of both scholarship and literature exists around intersections of gender, sexuality, and fatness. As fat studies begins to emerge as a viable academic location of inquiry, questions surface as to how fat bodies, deemed "excessive" in their trespasses of size and space, create even more complex subject positions when compounded by queer desires. This proposed anthology seeks contributions addressing junctions of "fat" /and/ "queer" in pieces that consider the representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality and also writings considering the theoretical conceptions of these intricate subjectivities. /Spilling Over /will reflect the notions of excess, boundaries, and containment implied by the labels "fat" and "queer" both singularly and collectively. In the form of scholarly writing and creative non-fiction pieces, essay submissions might consider (but are not limited to):

* theorizing the concept of "excess" as it pertains to fatness and queerness
* fat and queer identities; personal narratives; reclaiming "fat" and "queer"
* notions of (in)visibility, hypervisibility, and passing and/or privilege
* intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, (dis)ability, age, and religion
* the economics of the obesity "epidemic" and the diet industry
* fat, queer art and performance; performativity
* pleasure, sex-positivity, eroticizing non-normative bodies
* acceptance movements, political activism, resistance
* the engagement of feminism with fatness
* global, transnational, transcultural constructions of fat, queer bodies and lives
* critical reflections of fatness and queerness in media, literature, film, music, and visual arts
* the rhetoric of fat oppression, fatphobia, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, responding to and/or addressing hate speech

By December 1, 2008, please send your 2,000 – 6,000 word submission, along with your complete contact information and a 50-100 word biography, to spillingover [at] gmail [dot] com with the subject line of "Spilling Over – Submission." Submissions must be received in 12 point Times New Roman font and sent in via Word documents (PDFs will not be accepted). Pieces will be reviewed and decisions made by April 2009. Please note that accepted submissions will be approved on a tentative basis, pending editorial board approval once the anthology has secured a publisher.

Questions can be directed to me at spillingover [at] gmail [dot] com or visit the MySpace page at www.myspace.com/spillingoveranthology .

Please distribute widely.

TALK TO ME, TALK TO ME

from triple j (australian youth radio station), a short discussion of the most recent trans kid to be approved for puberty delaying 'treatment' (see queen emily for some background). it starts about two thirds through this clip, and includes some words from a couple of awesome friends of mine. as well as from some nutter who implies trans people are all deluded and doctors really shouldn't be aiding and abetting. it also annoys me (still!) that reporters don't seem to think about which pronouns they use.

'TIS THE FAIRY

Picture by Es, of Penelope Waits.

The Dandification of Jonathan Williams. Sounds like a romance novel, doesn't it?

And, as I used a line from the poem, here's Loreena McKennitt's adaptation of "The Lady of Shalott" (random YouTube slideshow is random):



Here's a gorgeous live version, too:

DRESSING ME UP, IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE

would you look at that?! reason no. 473892 that anti-discrimination laws, the good little twinset wearing children of human rights campaign gentry, don't seem to work.

[Ms Hennessy] also told Mr Hurst that under the Anti-Discrimination Act the tribunal can only hear transgender cases.

"The Anti-Discrimination Act does not protect transvestites, it protects transsexuals, but you said you live as a woman," Ms Hennessy said. "Before the tribunal can hear the case what you have to be able to prove to the court is that sexually you are a transsexual."

um . . . WHUT?!!! fuck that shit.

SMALL CREATURE ARE YOU . . .

how cute are these?!

red squirrel!


omg chipmunk!

more pics from ontario countryside can be found here.

I CAN'T BELIEVE HE LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE ME

It's been a while since I uploaded any music, but yesterday I got all impatient with not having a version of this song, so I recorded one. It's not my song, but . . . um . . . it's my voice?!

Diamantina Drover by Hugh McDonald, as sung and arranged by me.

DID YOU EVER SEE THE WILD GOOSE SAILING ON THE OCEAN?

I'm home, safe and sound. My bag arrived a day after I did, but everything is here, nothing was confiscated in customs, and it's all good.



There's a mini update here, and I've put up more Vancouver pics here. I'll put up Toronto pics over the next few days.

HEY YOU! DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM?

if you know what this is, you'll understand my excitement. if you don't, you probably don't need to investigate further (mum, dad, that means you)!

i'm now in toronto, and having a lovely time! whee! . . . aaaaand more travel updates: more on the conference; more on vancouver; pics of los angeles

ONE DAY YOU'LL LOOK BACK ON THIS

Guys, TransSomatechnics was AWESOME. *Sigh* I'm so sad it's over.

As usual, I'll soon be updating the travel blog, so go there for more info!