Aging as a femme is so weird. On one hand (I'll be 41 next month) I feel like this is my most powerful decade yet so far, and on the other...well, even I can't entirely escape societal norms and I do have Many Feelings about getting older and what that means. But mostly I'm choosing to embrace it. Older means wiser, means more life and more experience...how can we not be grateful for that??
Also I'm really keen to read Blackouts & Queer Phenomenology. They're added to the list! Working on reading more and staring at my phone less this year :)
Happy birthday Raechel! Grateful as always for your sharing.
Reading this has reminded me how I find the mixing of ages one of the most precious prefigurative parts of movement organising. Age segregation is such a blatant product of the over structuring of our lives. Great to break that. But really it’s just personal gratitude for getting to see the size (and weird shape) of life through friendships across ages, and discovering how rare such an obviously beautiful thing is...
I hope the beauty and gender questions are generative challenges for you!
Aging as a femme is so weird. On one hand (I'll be 41 next month) I feel like this is my most powerful decade yet so far, and on the other...well, even I can't entirely escape societal norms and I do have Many Feelings about getting older and what that means. But mostly I'm choosing to embrace it. Older means wiser, means more life and more experience...how can we not be grateful for that??
Also I'm really keen to read Blackouts & Queer Phenomenology. They're added to the list! Working on reading more and staring at my phone less this year :)
Happy birthday Raechel! Grateful as always for your sharing.
Reading this has reminded me how I find the mixing of ages one of the most precious prefigurative parts of movement organising. Age segregation is such a blatant product of the over structuring of our lives. Great to break that. But really it’s just personal gratitude for getting to see the size (and weird shape) of life through friendships across ages, and discovering how rare such an obviously beautiful thing is...
I hope the beauty and gender questions are generative challenges for you!
Love this and I feel so similarly re: aging. Also, happy happy birthday!