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This is the description of my blog...

This is my blog about me A white, middle class (by default), queer bisexual lesbian, in graduate school, assistant director of a small preschool who lives with her mother, stepfather, adopted sister, great grandmother, and occasional niece and nephew in a quiet little mountain town. This is what comedy is made of people...

Just to clarify...

"The Lesbian Phallacy" is a play on words of the Lesbian Phallus a work by Judith Butler which builds on the psychoanalytic theories on Sigmund Freud.

As Butler suggests, “If the phallus is an imaginary effect (which is reified as the privileged signifier of the symbolic order), then its structural place is no longer determined by the logical relation of mutual exclusion entailed by a heterosexist version of sexual difference in which men are said to ‘have’ and women to ‘be’ the phallus” (Bodies That Matter 88).

Although the phallus is an imaginary signifier of power there are material benefits to possessing one and thus, it is also privileged. The Lesbian Phallus refers to a redistribution and rearticulation of modes of power often denied to those people (women, the gays, people of color) in order to subvert the dominant white, heterosexist, capitalist, patriarchy.

So anyway my blogs tend to focus on modalities of power and the ways they play out in relationships of all sorts. I tend to make observations with analysis (not judgment) in order to describe "once ocurrant acts of being" that tend to reify or subvert dominant modes of power. The Lesbian Phallacy is my blog which, deals with my own subjective place in the understandings of power-and I just thought it was clever...

Welcome to my new space

Since my break-up with Smalls I have decided to delete my Myspace profile. I loved Myspace but felt that for my own sanity that I just needed to leave for awhile. It was getting much too intense and passive aggressive on the break up front. It was really the last straw when a friend I hadn't spoken to in about a year already knew the new girl's name that I was dating and that it was controversy causing within my group of friends. There was no way she would have known if it wasn't for my ex telling a friend who told her ex who happened to be my friend. It was just much too weird and I decided a mental health break from the fake yet ever so real on-line community just wasn't necessary for my life.

But alas I missed the said faux reality of on-line life and felt the real pull to write in a space that can be designated for public viewing and what-not. I miss writing and I am sad because I dismissed my profile without copying my previous blogs which makes me kind of sad. But at the same time I have decided that letting go of my myspace as well as my old blogs is a way of letting go of my past and moving on to my future. Not that I want to dismiss my previous friends and experiences but just that I want to be open to new possibilities and experiences and friends and not be bogged down by past baggage.

So welcome...here goes nothing...