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31 July 2000
Welllll....my friend Drew has packed up his computer and is almost ready to fly off to Florida. I know that it would have been much more difficult for me to "be myself" without Drew's encouragement and company. For that, and for being a good friend, I owe him an immense gratitude!
Drew came by the office yesterday so that we could have a farewell coffee. While here, my sister called to report that my nephew was moving to Gainesville, Florida - Drew's hometown - to go to school.
And, finally, from the "there's a little Imelda in us all" department, I've been taking advantage of the terrific sale at Nordstrom to stock up on girly shoes - especially since I found out that I can wear a size ten. Yippee!!!!
29 July 2000
I finally finished reading the Michael Warner book and, if you can't tell from my earlier comments, I highly recommend it.
Yesterday, inspired by references to her in Michael Warner's book, I picked up a copy of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "Tendencies" and started reading her essay "Queer and Now".
My buddy Drew is packing up and getting ready to move back to Florida. This has been brewin' for awhile and it'll be a good thing for him. Still...it's hard not to be blue.
I've started reading the Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders. "Disorders" is such a loaded term, don't you think? I much prefer to think of myself as "differently gendered".
4 July 2000
This morning's Chronicle had a story on the American Academy of Pediatrics' first-ever guidelines for the treatment of newborns with ambiguous genitalia. This affects "at least a couple of thousand babies" in this country a year. Thanks to Drew for pointing the article out to me.
Blue sky. Good six mile walk. Groovy Dusty Springfield tunes rocking around in my ears. Why am I so blue? One possible answer.
Here's another. I definitely must take the grand-daughter to see "Stormy Weather" at the Paramount on August 18!
2 July 2000
Normality kills!
I'm slowly making my way through the Michael Warner book, managing to get a few pages in between home and work, and work and home. Meanwhile, The Nation had a recent article on Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Michael Warner is a member of Sex Panic, whose Declaration of Sexual
Rights can be signed online.
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