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- From: eowyn@brahms.udel.edu (Zoe Antonia Velonis)
- Subject: kudos
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- Organization: University of Delaware
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:28:13 GMT
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- First of all, thanks to everyone who pounced on me...both on net (I
- finally got to the end of those 400 odd articles that had stacked up)
- and off net. You know who you are!
- Although they made me feel nice and warm and fuzzy, and squeezed and
- loved, etc. (& I'm not belittling this!), I've got some problems I'm
- hoping you can help me with---hell, even typing it all down in verbal
- format will help.
- If you've read Jim (seamus)'s posts, you know that on UD we have the
- LGBSU (less politically active) and Queer Campus (politically radical).
- I finally admitted being bi to myself and a friend up in NYC over e-mail about
- a month and a half ago, and three days later, proceeded to join QC to make
- some sense out of things. It seemed to me like they were the only people
- on campus doing a damn thing about homophobia, and I wanted to do something,
- too. So far so good.
- But, with typical alacrity and zeal, I jumped in both feet first. I'm now
- the rep between QC , the LGBSU and our student govt., unofficial secretary
- for the group, and (without boring you with all the politics that have
- been shuffling back and forth for the past month or so), have volunteered
- myself to the extent that I feel like I am a political animal. nothing
- else.
- (I can hear it already. Slow down, take it easy, let yourself get into
- things gently. You have plenty of time.)
- Conscience is really easy to write off as not knowing what it's talking
- about. It has a tendency to concentrate only on aspects of the problem,
- not the whole thing. I want to remain active, I like feeling like I'm
- doing something. But I feel like I haven't resolved my bisexuality
- within my own personality, that I've been hiding behind politics and
- creating this demarcation line within my life: Before Queer and After
- Queer. I love being Queer, at least I think I do most of the time, but
- I don't know how to reconcile being a daughter, sister, writer, juggler,
- french speaker, poet, all of these things that have been so central to
- my identity. And the friend who is reading this over my shoulder just
- pointed out that they can still be central to my identity has a point,
- but it's a lot harder to do this than to say it. How have you all
- integrated the non-queer parts of yourself with the queer parts of you?
- It's proving to be a mammoth task that I am not really sure how to deal
- with.
- I can be Queer. I have no problem with that identity. It's being Queer+
- Zoe, that's what I can't understand how to do.
- Any suggestions?
-
- On a lighter note, I thought I might explain my login name once and for
- all so I won't have to keep mailing it individually.
- Eowyn is a fictional character in J.R.R. Tolkien's _Lord of the Rings_
- trilogy, which I highly recommend to anyone who hasn't read it.
- She is a really incredible woman who follows the guy she's in love with
- and dresses up like a man and fights in the battle against the bad
- guys and kills the king of the Nazgul (the big bad guys) and also gets
- together with Faramir, whom I always kind of lusted after. So she's a
- wonderful role model. And although she's not exactly like me, we have
- enough in common that I think we'd get along really well if we ever met
- in person. I'd probably make a pass at her (-:
-
- Roy, good luck if you decide to tell the parental units. I came out to
- my brother on Friday---I whisked him aside and said to him, "What I wanted
- to tell you except that we kept playing telephone tag was...."
- and he said in that wonderful melodramatic joking tone of his,"You're
- coming out of the closet!" and I said, well, actually, yes. I'm bi.
- He took it well. Sat there with a big silly grin on his face. But I'm
- not planning to come out to any of my other family members. It would
- either destroy them---I know, maybe I'm underestimating them, but when
- they're pretty damn close to fundamentalist christians who are unquestion-
- ably homophobic, how do you drop a bombshell like that? In my case, you
- don't. But as everyone else has said, you know them, we don't. Do what
- your heart tells you is right, do what will give you peace. And hugs!
-
- HUGS all round. We deserve them.
- Thanks for being here to gripe to! (-;
-
- Zoe
- (Have you ever noticed that whenever you try to say something really
- profound, you always end up sounding like the lyrics of a country music
- song?)
-
-