The last two Art of Manliness newsletters have been about how to make the perfect cup of coffee (Monday) and loss, grief and manliness (today). I am not even kidding. Hopefully bodlon is laughing as hard as I am.
Preliminary Dragon*Con schedule with no way of knowing if I am scheduled against everything I care about. It's causing me HUGE angst. Which is really dumb and irrational, especially since everything I care about -- totally people I've seen at cons eight-billion times before, and the ones I haven't are totally the ones I'm not going to wind up scheduled against. Blargh blargh blargh.
Patty heads out to family stuff tomorrow. I'm pouty because I'm sooooooooo enjoying being home with her.
Woah has there been a spate of great Torchwood fic posted in the last 48 hours. Good times.
Oh hey, Gary Russell will be at the next DWNY thing.
Scanty Particulars: The Scandalous Life and Astonishing Secret of James Barry, Queen Victoria's Most Eminent Military Doctor
It's a bio of someone who was either a woman living as a man, a transman or an intersexed individual -- it's not clear both because of the lacking historical record in places and the lack of use of current identifiers. Anyway, the life story is fucking ASTOUNDING the book began as a dissertation, so it has a lot of academic references of use. There's a good chunk in the middle that talks about the ideal of male beauty at the time (which was basically "woman with a brain") and how that made it somewhat easy in some ways for a woman to pass. There's also a lot of stuff on the history of women passing as men to join the military and why this stuff happened and how people got away with it.
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Date: 2009-08-04 02:43 pm (UTC)It's a bio of someone who was either a woman living as a man, a transman or an intersexed individual -- it's not clear both because of the lacking historical record in places and the lack of use of current identifiers. Anyway, the life story is fucking ASTOUNDING the book began as a dissertation, so it has a lot of academic references of use. There's a good chunk in the middle that talks about the ideal of male beauty at the time (which was basically "woman with a brain") and how that made it somewhat easy in some ways for a woman to pass. There's also a lot of stuff on the history of women passing as men to join the military and why this stuff happened and how people got away with it.
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Date: 2009-08-04 02:44 pm (UTC)By the way, are you still interested in the possibility of a forming a writers' grp? I'm really trying to make this happen for fall.
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