Below is something I wrote at The Good Men Project after writing a three-part “queer dictionary.”
Wait just a minute, you say. There were only meant to be three parts to the queer dictionary. Well, I lied. Okay, not really. I didn’t lie; I just needed to revisit1 a few terms in Part 2. Oh, also I need to admit and apologize for screwing something up, which I’ll do in just a second. (My haters are rubbing their hands together in glee, and my lovers are...well never you mind what my lovers are doing just now).
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As a woman and a feminist I have a very specific perspective on the term ‘man up.’ It’s a highly gendered phrase, for one thing. The phrase implies that manhood is something that is achieved beyond simply being male. It also implies that certain characteristics, such as stoicism and strength, are masculine traits.
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Five years ago, at the age of 20,
I found myself sitting on a plane, travelling to a foreign country by myself
for the first time in my life. To say that I was a little nervous would be an
understatement. Mostly, though, I was really excited. I was going to Jordan to
participate in my first excavation! I could potentially find something that a
bona fide archaeologist might write a paper about. My hands would be the first
human hands in thousands of years to come into contact with the objects I would
find. I do not know if I can describe the excitement that stirred in me, still
stirs in me. I was practically buzzing the entire flight.
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