Exactly one year ago to this day, an angsty, melancholic grad student and former UW undergrad started this blog to get her head on straight. Happy birthday! I feel like I need emo party hats and streamers for the occasion.
And now, one year later, I'm still an angsty, melancholic grad student. I don't know if my head's on any straighter, but I certainly feel like I've learned a lot by blogging in this weird way about myself and The Laramie Project at the same time. If anything it's taught me a lot about how people try to understand themselves through literature. It's also taught me how to loosen up a bit and see where the flex and flow is within a person's self, that there is never really a "stable" sense of identity. We bend and flex with conflict, seeking a resolution; this is how the Lord would mold us. The self, I think, isn't so much a collection of essential memories as a series of tense negotiations.
So-- what have been my highlights so far? There are a few:
- The Laramie Project doesn't give me nightmares anymore.
- There is a lot of interesting dialogue going on back and forth with TLP, and is freaking fascinating.
- There still is a lot of story left to be told about Laramie itself, and the way it views sexuality, identity, community, and TLP itself is a lot more complicated than we let on.
- I got to post lots of pictures making fun of Fred Phelps. (Yeah, that was fun.)
- I'm getting active both in my faith community and the LGBT community to try and heal some of the rift that exists between them.
PHOTO CREDIT:
Here It Is, originally uploaded by Caveman 92223.
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