Boston sundries
Jul. 18th, 2009 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmWe're having a glorious time, which has included amazing amounts of great celiac-friendly food, a three-hour whale-watching tour that wound up being four hours due to some wacky weather, some burlesque, about which I have lengthy commentary at another date, and sitting on a kerb in Havard Square listening ot this random German family do strage things to pop songs with an electric violin.
In other news, I have annoying work stuff to deal with when we get home tomorrow night and I've been granted a RIDICULOUS amount of time for my Snape and gender presentation, and I feel really intimated by just how scholarly a setting I'm going to be in. OH, god, you guys!
Tomorrow: the Maparium!
If there's anything I need to see/read link it here (this now includes Torchwood fic and meta. I'm feeling much better).
In other news, I have annoying work stuff to deal with when we get home tomorrow night and I've been granted a RIDICULOUS amount of time for my Snape and gender presentation, and I feel really intimated by just how scholarly a setting I'm going to be in. OH, god, you guys!
Tomorrow: the Maparium!
If there's anything I need to see/read link it here (this now includes Torchwood fic and meta. I'm feeling much better).
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Date: 2009-07-19 02:08 pm (UTC)When I gave a less developed version of the paper at a Harry Potter con, I had a situation wherein someone got into a vociferous debate with me that I was arguing that Snape is trans, which I was not arguing, as I was mostly not discussing his internal identity, but his perceptual identity as as described by others, both within the HP universe and from outside (i.e., by JKR). And it went on and on and on and included being told I was wrong about stuff I had documented (in terms of historical trends of women dressing as men to go to war and the differences in the documented cases between Europe and America) and then citing a book I had cited, but again with a bias that assumed something about the gender identity of a historical individual about whom we are not sure if they were transgendered, intersexed or cross-dressing. It was all really annoying, because they were smart and interested in the same stuff I was, but assigning an angle to my piece I wasn't prepared to argue for because I couldn't substantiate it, and it was scary! I'd never been academically challenged before (by people with real cred!) but I apparently acquited myself well and it has made the paper stronger.