it's hard to get enough of a distance from these topics - queer communities and aesthetic codes, feminism and blogging - to write about them clearly. some people (ie henry jenkins, margaret meade) incorporate(d) their personal participation in a given situation into their ability to report on it.....

but i don't feel like i have the background to present these issues the way they should be. i want to talk about how the valuing of an andro/butch/masculine dyke identity has ended up shutting out femmes..but it's hard to enough distance to feel like i'm not tearing apart my own identity. i know that we can have this community and be inclusive. i just need to find a way of describing how to get there.

dreaming big?