Notes and queries (spring has sprung, extra daffodilish edition):

[raven]

Hi, I had a lovely dinner and evening out, and sebastienne has great hair, but now I need to WORK.

So this is not a real entry. I note, merely, that spring has sprung. The air has this lovely softness in it, and yesterday I went for a walk around the neighbourhood and saw people in shirt sleeves, people jogging, a woman in a beautifully red niqab taking her small child for an ice-cream. And later, when it rained, it was because the air was thick with humidity and the falling temperature led to condensation, and it all smelled of freshness and good things.

(My first attempt at it was "neighborhood". Perhaps it is a word you mostly see in American contexts.)

God, so sleepy. Links:

-lgbtfest is open for prompt submission for, I think, their third round. This is one of my favourites of the minor ficathons; in their words, it's a fest for fanfic that focuses on the experience of being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. Notably, this is not relationship based, it's based on lived experience. On the whole I come to it as an ally, rather than as a queer person, but that doesn't mean I can't wave my pointy stick and say you should all go and submit prompts.

-This is why being a lawyer is a noble profession; or, exactly why the people behind the Digital Economy Bill should go and screw themselves. (Via auntysarah.)

Yes, only two links, I am going to make some coffee and contemplate why I AM ALWAYS TAKING EXAMS. Three days before it's over, a week until far-flung travel, deep breaths, etc., etc...

Comments

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

On the whole I come to it as an ally, rather than as a queer person
I cannot quite parse this sentence from you, explain? xxx

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. When I wrote that I was thinking that it was appropriative to say I had any experience that would qualify as queer lived experience. Relationships with women is something I have pretty much stopped doing, and probably won't do again - I can't come out to my family, and equally can't cut them off to the point where they don't know about my relationships, so, you know. And even when I identified as queer more publically, it's not like I went out with lots of women, or wanted to pursue women exclusively, or did any queer activism, or thought about the whole of my life in terms of my queerness, or did anything that might even qualify as being queer lived experience.

But now I am wondering if trying not to think too hard about it any more is in fact the quintessential queer lived experience, or if it's just a privilege of being generally queer rather than lesbian, or if it is a privilege and simultaneously a feature of queer experience.

[jacinthsong.livejournal.com]

if it is a privilege and simultaneously a feature of queer experience.
I am pretty tired/hungover, so am not at my most eloquent, but this is how I see it, yes. We both, as you say and as I have waffled about before, have lots of aspects of het-privilege in our present situation and don't necessarily have that much in common with someone who has been a bulldyke since the cradle, but we still negotiate these waters as well, you know? And I am just jumpy about any suggestion, even if it is me reading paranoidly into things, that bi people's position as queers is inconstant or up for rejection.

*hugs*