Thursday, April 03, 2008
Live at the C’s: Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Yesterday was an intense day—it was my first presentation at a national conference. Fortunately, all of the folks working with me on “What’s Queer Got To Do With It” were great over the past year. Far less formal than most panels, we sat with the attendees and presented/discussed ideas around being queer and composition. Lesbian sex, queer as appropriation, the presence or lack of bodies, professional identity, being “out,” dealing with borders—or the lack of them—in personal and private spaces, other people inhabiting our bodies, and composition were some of the threads raised. Overall, I felt it was very productive.
It was so productive, in fact, that my head still feels slammed. When I dialogue with folks, I treat it seriously and intensely, but I cannot do that all day long. Learning to find some sort of balance between my desire to see New Orleans with my professional development has been rather challenging. Yesterday, I needed a brief time of no-thinking, so I blew twenty bucks in Harrah’s. I just needed to not be present for a bit. As a non-gambler, it was a bit surreal.