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Hi Jessy,

In See Minotaur, in a portion skumar previously quoted, you write that you "suppose the best term is genderqueer". In Stryker's manifesto she uses the term "genderfuck", as in "I stood at the podium wearing genderfuck drag" (245). Are the two terms different in significant ways? Is genderqueer less about appearance, and more about one's own inner self? I feel like I've heard 'genderfuck' used to refer to a movement, or to a fashion sense, but I've heard genderqueer used mostly to talk about individuals.

At one point, you seem to make a distinction between the 'you', which i interpreted to mostly refer to the audience/the blob of people out there potentially reading whatever it is you've written (but perhaps it is meant for a more specific you?), seeing and listening. You write "youcantseeme", but then immediately ask "Are you listening to me!?!?" Is there something better, or more necessary, about listening?

Is seeing an act of judgment or objectifying (as we've talked about in some of our classes), while listening is about communication? Should we have read your texts out loud instead, or is the act of representing and then us reading already too far gone? Is that why you instruct, in Part Two, "Don't imagine a book"?