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so basically i have no formal gender/sexuality studies background. that said, i've done my fair share of feminist and gender readings and such independently as i felt moved to, though mostly back in high school. i am coming to this class because my time at bryn mawr is going on three years at this point, and i often find myself forgetting what it is like outside the 'bubble' as we (fondly?) refer to it, especially in matters of identity. i'm gay, a dyke, a lesbian, whatever we're calling it today, and bryn mawr is a place where that is no big news. we're big on diversity and everyone is allowed to be who they are, or so the literature goes. as an all female school (traditionally), we are even outside of so many of the everyday issues of sexism, and though we may examine and talk about them all the time, we do so from a place removed from the very context we are trying to examine. therefore, i am in this class to really look at those issues in a way that covers much more than just my own experience, and what i can see from bryn mawr. i am intrigued by the interdisiplinary approach, as well as the texts and the range of experiences we seem to have in the class thus far.