Wow, what a week! What a year!

I just want to drop a short entry about this crazy week I just had. So if you’ve been following my blog you know that it was my first week on hormones. Thanks a lot to everyone for their words of support and for their comments. I’ll be writing more about that as it goes on.

But on top of that, last week I handed in my master’s thesis to the European Graduate School! Even better, this week they accepted it, with distinction! I’m so happy and relieved. I really can’t believe I’m done. It seems so recently that I was just thinking about applying, but it also seems like so many lifetimes away, if that makes any sense.

Here’s the thing, it makes me kind of crazy to think that I spent all that time on a 69 page document that only my committee and a one or two of my friends will ever read. So, I’m thinking about how to get more people to read it and I’m thinking that trying to get it published or included in a journal or something is good. Does anyone have any suggestions? Have folks tried self-publishing? What was your experience with it? I got EGS to agree to my licensing it Creative Commons (by attribution - share alike). So, imho, that means I can do with it what I want.

The title is “Trans desire, towards an unbounded biopolitics” and it brings together queer theory, psychoanalysis and biopolitics to argue for queer media production, queer porn production specifically, as a form of world building as in the alter-globalization movement, as a form of resistance against biopower and as a way of creating new subjectivities through building community. If you have some suggestion as to how I can get more folks to read it, then send it my way. I’m just not sure that posting it on a blog or an email list is the best thing to do. Actually, I’m pretty sure its not.

Also, I just posted over a hundred photos in my flickr photostream and made some new sets. The photos go way back, including a few from last summer in zurich on my way home from EGS, the awesome new years eve holiday sweater party (yes aisling i finally posted them!) , a trip to tijuana with kyong park’s class, Nikki and the mongoloid at the city heights free skool, my last trip to montreal and the “into the folds” workshop, Bikes del Pueblo - a bike kitchen, and the Sharing is Sexy release party! Check em out!

There’s so much change happening now in this city. So many of my friends are moving away, houses are changing, even I’m planning on graduating in less than a year and looking for phd programs and teaching jobs in other cities. Seeing all of these photos of the people I love so much makes me kinda sad, but its also awesome to see how much fun we’ve had this year, and its only half over! Whew!