Comments on: Labels and Intersections of Identity http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/ Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:27:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: July in a Glance | The Femmeinist Fucktoy http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-20249 July in a Glance | The Femmeinist Fucktoy Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:04:50 +0000 http://www.lumpesse.com/?p=412#comment-20249 [...] I speculated about and analyzed labels and their uses which was responded to by Ellie here on her blog [...] [...] I speculated about and analyzed labels and their uses which was responded to by Ellie here on her blog [...]

]]> By: Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-07-26 http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-20177 Being Amber Rhea » Blog Archive » links for 2008-07-26 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:31:11 +0000 http://www.lumpesse.com/?p=412#comment-20177 [...] Labels and Intersections of Identity | Ellie Lumpesse: Pretentious Pervert “The labels we assign ourselves are the most accurate, personal, hard-fought, and precious. But they are also those that can be co-opted by outsiders and twisted against us in painful ways.” (tags: identity sexuality language labels life) [...] [...] Labels and Intersections of Identity | Ellie Lumpesse: Pretentious Pervert “The labels we assign ourselves are the most accurate, personal, hard-fought, and precious. But they are also those that can be co-opted by outsiders and twisted against us in painful ways.” (tags: identity sexuality language labels life) [...]

]]> By: Ellie http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-20173 Ellie Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:07:42 +0000 http://www.lumpesse.com/?p=412#comment-20173 Scarlet - I love the labels you have invented for yourself. They obviously mean something special to you. Gabe - I love your business card! Sakura - You know, I wonder if I shouldn't think of myself more as queer than bisexual. Definitely something to consider. Jack - I think your labeling priorities are very interesting and very telling. I guess I'm similar in that way, my first two are "student" and "teacher" - those are things that I don't see changing even if I leave a formal schooling environment. Scarlet – I love the labels you have invented for yourself. They obviously mean something special to you.

Gabe – I love your business card!

Sakura – You know, I wonder if I shouldn’t think of myself more as queer than bisexual. Definitely something to consider.

Jack – I think your labeling priorities are very interesting and very telling. I guess I’m similar in that way, my first two are “student” and “teacher” – those are things that I don’t see changing even if I leave a formal schooling environment.

]]> By: jack http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-20168 jack Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:02:19 +0000 http://www.lumpesse.com/?p=412#comment-20168 Someone once asked me to define myself in only three labels. Oddly as much as I think and talk and write about sex there were no sexual or even gender oriented labels there. I said: Writer, New Yorker and Atheist. It's interesting to see how high up on people's identity sexual and gender labels rank. Under those three I would put: Voyeur, Reader, Man, Mostly Straight, Foodie, Top (I probably wouldn't go as far as dom), Journalist (as in writer of journals), Graphic Designer, Hedonist, Aesthetic, Liberal, Postmoderist (stop laughing), Intrenched member of the Cyberculture, Pervert, Former Punk, Vaguely Indie, Chubby Metrosexual. I probably thought about this list way too much. I may or may not have involved a database program at some point during the making of this list. Someone once asked me to define myself in only three labels. Oddly as much as I think and talk and write about sex there were no sexual or even gender oriented labels there.

I said: Writer, New Yorker and Atheist.

It’s interesting to see how high up on people’s identity sexual and gender labels rank.

Under those three I would put: Voyeur, Reader, Man, Mostly Straight, Foodie, Top (I probably wouldn’t go as far as dom), Journalist (as in writer of journals), Graphic Designer, Hedonist, Aesthetic, Liberal, Postmoderist (stop laughing), Intrenched member of the Cyberculture, Pervert, Former Punk, Vaguely Indie, Chubby Metrosexual.

I probably thought about this list way too much. I may or may not have involved a database program at some point during the making of this list.

]]> By: Sakura Sarashi http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-20166 Sakura Sarashi Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:59:39 +0000 http://www.lumpesse.com/?p=412#comment-20166 Well, I identify as a queer switch woman. My queerness means I do not set boundaries for potential partners based on sex or gender. I label myself a switch because while I like pain, I also like being in charge, while I like being restrained, sometimes I also like humiliating others (consensually, of course). Aspects of my sexuality and myself come out depending on my mood and the company I keep. Well, I identify as a queer switch woman. My queerness means I do not set boundaries for potential partners based on sex or gender. I label myself a switch because while I like pain, I also like being in charge, while I like being restrained, sometimes I also like humiliating others (consensually, of course). Aspects of my sexuality and myself come out depending on my mood and the company I keep.

]]> By: Gabe http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-20165 Gabe Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:33:30 +0000 http://www.lumpesse.com/?p=412#comment-20165 <i>This isn?t a post where I?m going to say, ?Oh! I am so much more than my sex, don?t reduce me!? That is too simple.</i> You know, I think a lot of what I do in regards to sex is in reaction to this. I feel like this is so often repeated that sex itself is reduced and its importance taken away as people shrink from being identified only with sex. That seems to give so much power to an unhealthy relationship among power, sex and other people. So part of me is reacting with "Yeah, I'm more than my sex, but my sex is a BIG part of who I am. Deal with it, or don't bother dealing with me." So what labels do I choose? Well, it's taken a while to get to a point where I can embrace them at all; they used to feel so limiting. Now, while still having some limiting effects, they serve as points of connection with others, conversation starters and shorthand invitations into some deeper dialogue. My list includes Christian, dom, genderfucked, guy, anarchist, perv, poly. There are certainly more, but those are some important ones off the top of my head. You might get a kick out of <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/malakhgabriel/pic/0018x699" rel="nofollow">my business card</a>. This isn?t a post where I?m going to say, ?Oh! I am so much more than my sex, don?t reduce me!? That is too simple.

You know, I think a lot of what I do in regards to sex is in reaction to this. I feel like this is so often repeated that sex itself is reduced and its importance taken away as people shrink from being identified only with sex. That seems to give so much power to an unhealthy relationship among power, sex and other people. So part of me is reacting with “Yeah, I’m more than my sex, but my sex is a BIG part of who I am. Deal with it, or don’t bother dealing with me.”

So what labels do I choose? Well, it’s taken a while to get to a point where I can embrace them at all; they used to feel so limiting. Now, while still having some limiting effects, they serve as points of connection with others, conversation starters and shorthand invitations into some deeper dialogue.

My list includes Christian, dom, genderfucked, guy, anarchist, perv, poly. There are certainly more, but those are some important ones off the top of my head. You might get a kick out of my business card.

]]> By: Scarlet Lotus Sexgeek http://www.lumpesse.com/2008/07/labels-and-intersections-of-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-20164 Scarlet Lotus Sexgeek Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:23:49 +0000 http://www.lumpesse.com/?p=412#comment-20164 Aw, I'm flattered, you know, and glad that resonated (and made sense). I know what you mean about being consumed by sex but also not necessarily having more sex... which is always an odd almost oxymoron but not quite an oxymoron... I've come to embrace my label fetish (I blame the Virgo in me, of course, and the minor OCD), and I really do believe that labels can be wonderful things, if allowed to be (and we don't usually allow them to be). I love labels and finding out new ways to label myself and new words which resonate within me, so much so that I have that string of labels as the sub-title of my blog. And, similarly, when a label is not recognized it can be annoying and frustrating. I'm just babbling now, really (something I do so often), and thus will stop! Aw, I’m flattered, you know, and glad that resonated (and made sense). I know what you mean about being consumed by sex but also not necessarily having more sex… which is always an odd almost oxymoron but not quite an oxymoron…

I’ve come to embrace my label fetish (I blame the Virgo in me, of course, and the minor OCD), and I really do believe that labels can be wonderful things, if allowed to be (and we don’t usually allow them to be). I love labels and finding out new ways to label myself and new words which resonate within me, so much so that I have that string of labels as the sub-title of my blog. And, similarly, when a label is not recognized it can be annoying and frustrating.

I’m just babbling now, really (something I do so often), and thus will stop!

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