The Emergence of Form, Meaning, and Aesthetics

October 27, 2009 Core Group Meeting

Background, Summary,
and Continuing Discussion

The I Ching and the Emergence of Form

Background (Ben, excerpted from a longer .pdf):

Lucinda Williams, What If (via holsn39)

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Origin of Love (via Owl:
"our way of categorizing the world does not make
sense to the immense diversity within society")

Thursday, November 5
Public Event @ Bryn Mawr College
Transcending Gender: An Informal Conversation
with Kate Bornstein
Time: 10 - 11:30 AM
Location: Quita Woodward Room, Thomas Hall 

"I've never been hurt by an honest question....I want this...to be
the conversation I always wanted as I was growing up,
and never had the chance to have" (Gender Outlaw, 9, 12).

Reading Notes on
Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide
for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws

Reading Notes on My Gender Workbook:
how to become a real man, a real woman,
the real you, or something else entirely

Music to get us in the mood:
Garth Brooks (via Owl): "We Shall Be Free"
and/or Lucinda Williams (via holsn39): "What If"
and/or The Distillers (via ebock): Seneca Falls...

Reading Notes
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us



transgender style: based on collage; a more playful, less dictatorial style
of self-expression; trying on accessories for next phase of my life (3-4)

To our new mood music (courtesy of Elephant and holsn39 and eshaw)

please sign up on board: which Bornstein book did you read=are prepared to "teach"?