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Changes

Tataaaa this is my one year blogiversary. I can’t believe I’ve made it that long! So, I guess it’s time to take a look back. However, I don’t think that what I’ve been writing is the interesting part of this story, but rather how I’ve changed.
I started off wanting to write. It wasn’t that I [...]

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Masculinity

Maybe this is the sort of examining that doesn’t lead anywhere. The sort that’ll just come to the point of shit-is-fucked-up – but we knew that anyway.
So, what I’ve been wondering is: What’s my fascination with masculinity? Not with men in general; with the ideals of masculinity, images of heroes and loners, icons and superstars. [...]

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What if?

I was wondering the other day how I would react if I happened to wake up one morning and my body had turned male. Would I mind? I don’t think so.
What would I look like then? How would my body change? I’d not be that muscular, I don’t think, but I wouldn’t be skinny either. [...]

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All the sexy dreams I’ve ever head, I can count on one hand. Usually they are either very much about my own body or about someone I have a huge crush on. (Then there were also these teasing dreams in which I was surrounded by teammates or best friends of that guy I had the [...]

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In a seminar a professor once started asking every single student how he or she was doing gender. Although I had thought that I had understood the concept, answering the question on this personal level proved to be strangely difficult. Basically I just repeated what others had said before me – I put on make [...]

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Orientalize this.

This is giving me goosebumps no matter how often I watch it.

Found here.

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Cutting Sadism Out.

How do people read blogs? I so get lost over the thousands and thousands of links to all these other entries that I haven’t read yet and need to read now and then I end up with all these open tabs and don’t know where to look and it’s all so interesting and then I [...]

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Words and Soap.

As I am the one and only student in all gender classes, who feels the urgent need to talk about kink, this keeps happening:
Some student: “…although women and men are equal, it seems like most women really enjoy being dominated in bed. I wonder why that is.”
Me, remembering all the Bitchy Jones lectures about false [...]

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