From Twitter 01-20-2011

[dragonlady7]

• 12 hours of sleep later... I could use a nap. #fb
  
• Butt status: hurtier than yesterday, but not *quite* enough to curse Super's name. Yet. #fb
  
• Downside: Lost a link I meant to read. Upside: Computer no longer runs fan constantly.
  
• iPhone software update, I did not ask you to remove all the apps that I had downloaded that weren't direct from Apple. Fuck you.
  
• @jhsu Nice. Who's the keymaster?
  
• I am insanely tempted to join Tumblr just to bandwagon-hop onto the pic-a-day fa(t)shion craze. http://bit.ly/e11Yva #fb
  
• Thing is, I dress like a total weirdo. Does anyone want to see my ass on the Internet? And could I actually take a pic a day?
  
• Upside: if I'm restricted to short-form blog entries there couldn't POSSIBLY be drama. ... Right?
  
• Sitting in @zobar2's desk chair: my feet don't touch the floor. :( I'm a short shorty.
  
• @jillerz10 KO consensus is you should be 230 because tooth-hurty. We're punners, we are. (Blame Legs Luther.)
  
• @polaroidbaby27 EXCEPT AT A LEAGUE-SPONSORED AFTER PARTY. Then it's OK! Right @danyellsugg?
  
• Chita just lay on her back in my lap with all 4 paws in the air while I clipped her nails. Purring. She's either an angel or really dumb. :)
  
• @amberhayward I look forward to seeing these. I will be sporting blue star stockings and white lace ruffle undies.
  

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Comments

[shalanna.livejournal.com]

I am considering doing the Tumbler fa(t)shion deal. It's too much exposure to post on Fatshionista OOTD, and you don't want it on the regular journal (at least I don't--that's for serious writing and a lot of fatphobics who don't realize that's a bad thing to be read that journal!). I already have a Tumblr account.

But! When I went to that URL of the organizer, she seemed to be saying you need to be "Femme" or "butch" or in other words a lesbian. I am straight and I don't want to tread on their territory and intrude! So what do you think? Do they allow straight fats, or what's the deal?

Of course I could do an Outfit Of The Day on my own tumbler without being in their list. But what's fun is looking at everyone else's posts. "I Dress Like A Clown" would be my usual caption.

So I don't know . . . and could I take a pic a day? Doubtful, but hey, it takes only 31 days to form a new habit!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hadn't been paying that much attention-- the way it was linked I didn't see the ENORMOUS banner across the top until I'd already started thinking about it. (I think my link took me right to the post.) I identify as queer and femme and fat even though my partner's a man, I'm not the most feminine, and I'm actually three pounds below the "obese" marker again, so I'm pretty marginal on all those things.
I want to do it as part of a list too. Doing it on my own is a little boring. Well, if I sign up for a Tumblr, I can ask this person if they're restricting this to just femmes. I saw a wonderful essay last night from a related Tumblr about how you don't have to be queer to be femme-- it was actually quite moving, about how cisgendered heterosexual women should be allowed to reclaim the femme label if they're empowered by it.
("Femme" and "butch" don't necessarily mean lesbian-- I should find that essay and link to it. They're ways of expressing gender, which can also be a way of expressing sexuality, but not necessarily. You could be a heterosexual man with a femme identity, if you wanted-- it's uncommon, but could certainly happen. Many, many transvestites are actually heterosexual men.)

I don't know if I could take a pic a day either but I'm bound to try-- I work for a goddamn camera store, I should be able to manage something. Which is most of the point, for me. I dress like a total weirdo (yesterday it was a leopard-print skirt, red fuzzy legwarmers, black stockings over nude tights (cold!), blue sneakers, a white waffle-knit long-sleeved thermal shirt and a black sleeveless ruffly dress shirt over the top. I looked like a total freak. It was what I had clean and could find. I sort of want to document this to show off what a weirdo I am, but also to remind me that people look at me all day and make judgements, I should probably put thought into it.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Ah, here it is-- a bit rambly, but I thought to the point:
http://therotund.tumblr.com/post/2850548544/policing-femme-identity-in-response-to-xicanagrrrl