At 30 I Realized I Had No Gender
Notes Gendered language for beauty - handsome, cute, pretty, beautiful. Science vs Art – Think Irina Hyperaware - think ordering a Mocha Moolatte, being called ma’am. p95 - “If you had been born a girl & lived your life that way–what kind of life would you have lived?” Apps vs in-person attraction. Even more determined on this lately (note from napkin – presumably about writing about gender) Glasses - p40 - “are you a gold or a silver?” p117 - “Manly…?” “Driving a car…makes me feel that I have to be chill while driving… or it’s not manly” Remember driving in high school? p128 - writing about things that are hard to bring up. “You use your pen instead of your mouth.” p130 - “chatting about nothing in particular is probably how we spend most of our time.” This is unbelievably sweet. Review I spent this morning as I spent every Saturday morning, I went to the cafe. Instead of reading, I spent most of my time working on an article and after found that I had a lot of trouble focusing, so after the second cafe I went for a walk. I meandered around DC until I realized I was at MLK Jr. Library and I went in and started to wander the aisles and eventually saw this on a shelf. It was right next to a big graphic novel about building an atomic bomb, which a friend had sent me a picture of at some point. A lot of weird circumstances went into putting me in a place to pick the book up. ...