August 2008

• what if we all don’t want white privilege! #
• “National Socialism is nothing but applied biology.” Rudolph Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz #
• I want to post a Sany Stone quote, but its too large…so, I’ll post it on my web site…irobyn.com #
• I would like to take a nap! #
• The lil chimps begin school next week! #
• The weekend is upon us CHIMPS! Do I hear the name:…oh yes, I hear it! #
• I feel as though I should be blogging @ Obama! History in the making and all… #

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…but what if “we” don’t want it?…”  White Privilege that is…

Each morning I begin a blackberry conversation with a friend of mine from California who is now living in Chicago.  Today was no different.  It began with:  “morning ‘Lotus!”…She calls me Lotus after my discovery of the Lotus flower and its symbolism and beauty.  I replied to her:  “good morning!”  This began our blackberry conversation!  But, today was a particularly unusual conversation as it went toward the critical and political side of this, which for some blackberry conversations with this friend is not too terribly unusual, but it is Friday!

Today…the conversation went toward White Privilege!  I was having that discussion via blackberry messenger…yes, I have these sorts of critical discussions via blackberry messenger…concerning white privilege!  The reply that I read was: 

 ”we can all have white privilege…I’ll make it available!”

To which I replied:

What if we’re not all white and don’t want the privilege?

I have seen both worlds:  extreme poverty and extreme privilege.  I chose to live a life of intention and meaning by becoming a theologian.  For those of you who refuse to “follow” a path of religion, that’s fine, or “rebel” against the church, that’s fine too!  I choose to follow the Way of Jesus which is the way of Justice, as I understand it!  Its the way against privilege, against capitalism, the way on the margins, the way away from the center and the way of deep and abiding love.

Back to the blackberry messenger conversation…because I know that’s what you’re really interested in reading!  I have these conversations often with this person–we rant mostly and try to figure out how to remain engaged in this world in the midst of such confusion and great scandal of skewed value systems!  Me in my early 30s with a Master’s degree in Theological Ethics and my friend in her mid 40s who works in the business world.   We discuss a whole host of things from life to fun stuff to issues.  And, then we park it there at issues and the politics of issues and try or seek and find ways to live the quesions–that’s how I phrase it, at least!

So, the question remains, If white privilege was presented to us…what if we’re not all white and we don’t want that type of privilege?!  What if we’re trying to do it differently?!

To attempt to occupy a place as speaking subject within the traditional gender frame is to become complicit in the discourse which one wishes to deconstruct. Rather, we can seize upon the textual violence inscribed in the transsexual body and turn it into a reconstructive force.

For the Wiki article Sandy Stone  You’ll then need to click on:  Allucquere Rosanne Stone

While trained as a theologian, I have come to fall madly in love with text–all kinds of text/narrative.  Its the beauty of life, I call it!  Indeed, I have a quote fetish.  Some folks have shoe fetishes, feet fetishes, or other fetishes, but I have quote fetishes–that textual sort of fetish!  Stone’s quote captured me this morning when it popped up on my random quote selection on my site!  I decided to post it here as a blog post!  It is post worthy!  As I think about my own body, and the reality of Stone’s transgendered reality, I am seized or transfixed in a sort of gendered reality.

If you are not familiar with Sandy Stone, then please do become familiar!  There is some helpful resources in her work, even for the theologian!  The above link is the website for Stone.  Stone Teaches at UT in Austin [I happen to be from TX] and Stone identifies home as Santa Cruz, CA.  You can read more about the identity of “home” and how Stone comes to a place of home on the FAQs page.

• nothing but knowing that happiness is a long discipline #
• Checking my voice mail! Love it from chimpy! #
• waiting for my bbry message! #
• Happy Birthday to my favorite Nomadic Sister: Dr. Debbie Blades! #
• need to email loyola! #
• chimpychimpychimpy #
• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficu #
• cinamon bagel and cafe #
• fired off an email to LUC! #
• mi amiga mejor es el mejor! #
• Lesbians make themselves into a more frail political community by insisting on the radical irreducibility of their desire. #
• Writing #
• to be a theologian is to be in friendship! #
• Race #
• d:conservadora: ok, phd it is! #
• How difficult they make they make it for us to become women when becoming poultry is what that really means. Hélène Cixous #
• “It’s not realism that I am interested, it was Reality — understood through symbols.”Catherine Breillat #
• dconservadora: ok, phd it is! If i can get this damn direct message to work properly! #
• Del Martin dies of San Fran dies… #
• Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. Jean Baudrillard #
• “What I want to do is to involve each person in the audience which I do by being involved myself.” Agnés Varda #
• I’m hoping twittervill is liking mis quotes! #
• I just want to say hello, instead of goodbye… #
• “I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.” Judith Butler #
• At the Mac store/Apple store! I love me MacIntosh! #
• Thank goodness that Macs are intuitive! #

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• everybody hurts; everybody loves; everybody is different! #
• its the pura vida way! #
• So glad for chimp! #

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Its my Footer! What can I say! I love my words, and its what people love about me most, but what I love is that people love me for me–that people are willing to walk with me during the hard times, during the difficult times, during the “footer” times…feet to feet, shoulder to shoulder, and hand to hand. Thats the kind of abiding friend I am along this river which is winding. To my favorite chimp w/ whom I feel at home rooted and safe–te adordo y te quiero mucho mi amiga mejor. We are floating down this river and we are seeing so much. You have my full support–I walk w/ you shoulder to shoulder! Kairos, hermana!

Pura Vida! Kairos!