As a beginning aside, I first read "Earth Firsters" as "Earth Fisters." I wonder where my brain is.
If you don't mind my asking, what brought you to the queer radical environmentalist scene? And how does that dovetail with your experience in the (did I get it right?) National Guard? Do those two aspects of your life fit together, or is there a certain level of cognitive dissonance that has to be maintained? I'm not trying to be judgmental, I'm just curious.
I both love and hate teaching college students. It is a bit difficult at times-- I went into academia in part because I wanted to teach, but I wanted to teach adults who wanted to be in school, who were aware that they didn't have to be. What I have learned since starting grad school is that adolescence is much longer than I remembered it being, and that the bulk of my students are children of relatively affluent families who are in college because their parents told them they had to be. And yet, I find it oddly fun and rewarding-- sometimes more so than the research I do.
There is a pretty fantastic crack mpreg fic out there in which it is revealed that Janet is a staple of the Hub because Jack gave birth to her, and he can't stand to let her go and wreak havoc on society at large. Other than that-- I think in some way the bulk of mpreg may have to do with focusing on gender/sex roles, albeit not necessarily in a thinky, critical way. It may be an exploration of gender roles in a superficial "battle of the sexes" way-- let's make male characters get pregnant; that'll teach them to have compassion about what women go through. Or it may just be trying to fit romantic relationships between men into a heterosexist framework-- the assumption that two people in love get married and have kids because that's just what you do, and the assumption that it's more genuine and intimate if you make kids the "natural" way, imposed on relationships that don't necessarily exist in that framework.
But I think a more "thinky," possibly cracky mpreg fic might be interesting. I'd be interested to see what you did with that prompt. In fact, I dare you to try it. =)
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Date: 2009-07-29 10:30 pm (UTC)If you don't mind my asking, what brought you to the queer radical environmentalist scene? And how does that dovetail with your experience in the (did I get it right?) National Guard? Do those two aspects of your life fit together, or is there a certain level of cognitive dissonance that has to be maintained? I'm not trying to be judgmental, I'm just curious.
I both love and hate teaching college students. It is a bit difficult at times-- I went into academia in part because I wanted to teach, but I wanted to teach adults who wanted to be in school, who were aware that they didn't have to be. What I have learned since starting grad school is that adolescence is much longer than I remembered it being, and that the bulk of my students are children of relatively affluent families who are in college because their parents told them they had to be. And yet, I find it oddly fun and rewarding-- sometimes more so than the research I do.
There is a pretty fantastic crack mpreg fic out there in which it is revealed that Janet is a staple of the Hub because Jack gave birth to her, and he can't stand to let her go and wreak havoc on society at large. Other than that-- I think in some way the bulk of mpreg may have to do with focusing on gender/sex roles, albeit not necessarily in a thinky, critical way. It may be an exploration of gender roles in a superficial "battle of the sexes" way-- let's make male characters get pregnant; that'll teach them to have compassion about what women go through. Or it may just be trying to fit romantic relationships between men into a heterosexist framework-- the assumption that two people in love get married and have kids because that's just what you do, and the assumption that it's more genuine and intimate if you make kids the "natural" way, imposed on relationships that don't necessarily exist in that framework.
But I think a more "thinky," possibly cracky mpreg fic might be interesting. I'd be interested to see what you did with that prompt. In fact, I dare you to try it. =)