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Library

As my last task before leaving town I stopped by the library to get some books to read in Tokyo. I ran into Christobal and we had a good conversation about theory and our summer plans. He was returning Stoler’s Race and The Education of Desire and getting some other Foucault related stuff.

The library itself, though, was a fail. One of the main books I wanted (Queer Phenomenology) hadn’t been taken off of reserve yet, and the only guy who could do it wouldn’t be back for two weeks. I also wasn’t able to find this other book I really wanted (The Anthropology of Experience).

To further my demise, I got a parking ticket — eight minutes late. I’m not a big fan of the inefficient design of parking meters.

The Trip to Texas

I seem to have gotten used to these fourteen hour trips. I kept myself amused and awake by listening to music, NPR, and The Amber Spyglass; thinking; and by making a music video.

Links

• There were two incredible segments on NPR about parents grappling with their children’s experience with a so-called gender identity disorder. One child was taught to be masculine using aversion therapy, and another child was being given a hormone treatment to delay puberty. This quote by a parent about their experience of finally breaking down and getting their child a dress made my eyes water: “I thought she was gonna hyperventilate and faint because she was so incredibly happy. … Before then, or since then, I don’t think I have seen her so out of her mind happy as that drive to Target that day to pick out her dress.”