Dangerous Lives
Apr. 5th, 2003 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morrigirlYesterday was busy busy busy. After class, and work, and more work, I went over to CFA to see Janet and Jen Clark's art openning. It was the first senior show of the term so I had to be there to ring it in. A lot of people showed up. There was a band, and Tina was bartending. Lots of mingling and happiness, it was quite fun. I bought one of Jen's paintings for 30 bucks. Couldn't afford any of Janet's pieces. Yeah, so now I have three paintings I gotta find a way to ship back to NYC, and I'll have more before the term is out. Mom'll love that. But T said she could help me figure out ways to get them back and since she's an art major I trust her.
After the show, Matt, Suzy, and I went to this week's cinema club movie, the Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys. Man, what a fun, exciting, fucked up and utterly depressing movie. I loved it. I highly recommend it to the eternally angst ridden and brooding among the population.
After that I was suppose to hang out with Tina, but I got so tired I just went to bed instead. Felt bad about leaving T high and dry but I was pooped. With my current schedule I'm accustomed to taking naps in the afternoon, and I don't get to do that on Fridays because I work two library shifts. So I'm always exhausted by the end of the day even when I don't have any social activities to attend.
And today I woke up before noon if you can believe it, and spent an hour in the library reading the Gayle Rubin article for Gay and Lesbian Identities class. I'm not done with it yet, but so far it's pretty cool. Rubin claims that sexuality is a social construct just like race or gender. That's kinda mind blowing since we view sexuality as this intrinsic biological desire. But then again the idea of constructivism is always mind blowing. When I first learned that gender and race were constructed it totally altered my world view. I guess you could say any label that one affixes to themself can be seen as a social construction. Pretty fucked up huh? Nothing about you is intrinsic, it's all a product of society. Therefore if you are removed from society what do you become? What are you?
It's enough to make your head explode. :-)
After the show, Matt, Suzy, and I went to this week's cinema club movie, the Dangerous Lives of Alter Boys. Man, what a fun, exciting, fucked up and utterly depressing movie. I loved it. I highly recommend it to the eternally angst ridden and brooding among the population.
After that I was suppose to hang out with Tina, but I got so tired I just went to bed instead. Felt bad about leaving T high and dry but I was pooped. With my current schedule I'm accustomed to taking naps in the afternoon, and I don't get to do that on Fridays because I work two library shifts. So I'm always exhausted by the end of the day even when I don't have any social activities to attend.
And today I woke up before noon if you can believe it, and spent an hour in the library reading the Gayle Rubin article for Gay and Lesbian Identities class. I'm not done with it yet, but so far it's pretty cool. Rubin claims that sexuality is a social construct just like race or gender. That's kinda mind blowing since we view sexuality as this intrinsic biological desire. But then again the idea of constructivism is always mind blowing. When I first learned that gender and race were constructed it totally altered my world view. I guess you could say any label that one affixes to themself can be seen as a social construction. Pretty fucked up huh? Nothing about you is intrinsic, it's all a product of society. Therefore if you are removed from society what do you become? What are you?
It's enough to make your head explode. :-)
