Here are some things I learned:
- Don’t try to guest blog if you are not going to be sitting around a computer a lot. I did all these awesome projects with you and you all said so many interesting things and then I was off in outer space aka clown school or my grandma’s house and though I could see what you wrote on my fancy phone, I couldn’t write back. I wish I had had more time to play, even though I honestly really needed the level of unplugging that I got. I like making things and it was important to remember that the internet is not the only venue — but then you guys were so interesting and smart and I didn’t get to participate fully.
- Blogging is way more fun with a ton of commenters. Holy crap! I forgot that part, see #1 above, and then I couldn’t play along with all of you. I am going to try to go back and comment on some things that you said on the original posts, especially the migratory consent post and the clown school post, but THANK YOU for your level of engagement and insight and the things you taught me.
- I came into this with a lot of trepidation. I am a political person, but I am not really a member of the feminist blogosphere, and most of the time in online political spaces I feel like I have not done the reading enough to have any meaningful contribution. I still kind of feel that.
- I do feel like one big advantage of the feminist blogosphere is that it requires me to accept the fact I will never, ever be correct enough for everyone. I will always make some error out of privilege or blindness that other people will unfortunately have to catch. I like this, though, because it requires me to learn how to accept corrections in a way that does not derail the conversation, and because it also requires me to make decisions — how correct do I want to be sure I am before I post? It forces me to live with my own privilege blindness, which maybe sounds like I’m a jerk, but the thing is that I am who I am and I can’t somehow will away, say, my white supremacy just because I am really, really, really careful with my wording. Fucking up is a part of having privilege. That’s how the world is and until I accept it, I won’t really go anywhere except around in circles.
- I wish I had not been so absentee because I would’ve written these things: more about being a good person of privilege; more about the non-profit industrial complex; more about women clowns; more about different kinds of porn; more about queer gender and drag; more about CLOWN SCHOOL. Hey everybody who was so excited about clown school: I LOVE YOU. Let’s be pals and start a clown army of progressive clowns.
- I am going to keep working with all of the amazing things that came out of the Migratory Consent post. I will report back once I have things to report back. It was a big technical experiment and I learned a lot and now I want to make it a little more intelligible — the map is kind of hard to deal with right now and as a first step I want to figure out how to better order the information. I am about to learn more about GIS than I ever thought possible.
You can read my blogs here: http://www.interestinginteresting.net. I probably won’t be posting too much over the next few weeks because I will be busy trying to get ready for another short film shoot, but I like to post when I am thinking of things. You can also see some of my short movies @ Homo-a-Gogo‘s Experimental Film Screening in August, which I am still trying to decide if I can make it to. (Know anyone with free airline tickets to donate?), although my whole catalogue is here on YouTube. Come say internet hello!
xxxooo and a bientot. Thanks for playing with me and I hope I get to come back soon. Until then!