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Thursday, July 17th, 2008[1] [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/bookjacket_b2.jpg
Archive for the ‘Cartoons’ Category
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No Original Thoughts
Monday, July 14th, 2008The realization crushed him: his only original thoughts came as a boy.
We Are Not for Certain, v. 1
Sunday, July 13th, 2008[1] Another work in progress. This one is a 4 x4 cartoon, with graphite, marker, charcoal, pencil and watercolor. The frame is from IKEA [2] (of course!) and will have its own elements added later. [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/we-are-not-for-certain.jpg [2] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/
Foggy #65
Sunday, July 13th, 2008[1] I'm exploring new mediums with my cartoons. On canvas, with gesso, graphite, charcoal, pencil and acrylic. The text reads, "Uhh, why did I change my gender? The details are a bit fuzzy." More to come. For Illustration Friday [2]. [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/foggy-no-65.jpg [2] http://www.illustrationfriday.com/index.php
Nostradamus’ Predictions
Friday, June 13th, 2008[1] [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/nostradamus.jpg
Thank you, Ron
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Ron has been a big supporter of my blog over the years. He graciously and without charge translated the work of a French transsexual activist here [1]. So with a heavy heart I share with you the following from Ron. Please keep him in your thoughts. Dear Friends of the International Carnival of Pozitivities: It is with both joy and sadness that I am writing to announce the final edition of the ICP. After you receive this notice, I will delete the mailing list for the ICP from my files and you will no longer receive announcements about the project. I was placed on a new drug regimen about 2 months ago and have experienced a serious side effect to the new meds. I am no longer able to continue to maintain the project as a result. Please know that it has been a joy to bring you the ICP for the past 2 years and that I wish I could continue the project into the future. However, my focus has to be on my own healing now. For those of you who have contributed or hosted the ICP, my heartfelt gratitude can hardly be expressed. For those who blog about HIV/AIDS and who fight to end the stigma of this disease, I urge you to continue your work. We are all in the fight of our lives. Many, many thanks to Sokari at Blacklooks for hosting the final edition of the ICP at the following link: http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/international_carnival_of_positives_-_final_edition.html [2] Please visit, read and leave your feedback for the host and the contributors in this, the last edition of the ICP. I wish you all peace and health. Much love. Safe Journeys! Ron Hudson [1] http://jaysennett.com/2006/06/femininst-muta…or-transinismsfemininst-mutations-trans-feminism-or-transinisms/ [2] http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/international_carnival_of_positives_-_final_edition.html
The Money Made Me Do It
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008[1] Once Homofactus Press [2] happened to me, and we published The Marrow's Telling [3], personal blogging, writing, and cartooning hit the skids. Energy outlay is going towards the company and authors rather than me. But I am learning a heck-of-alot about capitalism and business and how really, really, truly queer people struggle to make transformative changes with money. Strange. But true. I think we have to follow the contours of our scary places with regard to money and creativity. We have to be willing to feel uncomfortable with our contractual choices. Otherwise, little changes. Big love to everyone. [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/jackie92.png [2] http://www.homofactuspress.com [3] http://www.amazon.com/Marrows-Telling-Words-Motion/dp/0978597311/002-2161944-4525632?SubscriptionId=1QZMGW0RRJC2PX87HDR2
Why I Became a Man
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008[1] This cartoon is dedicated to those feminists who think I am straying from the feminine path and those FtMs who think they have no privilege. Rock on! P.S. These cartoons continue to be free for you to use as long as you're not making money off of them. [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/enhancing-white-privilege.png
Gender: Drop Dead!
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008[1] The cartoon is a checklist for your gender. I recently learned that only a judge can declare me male, in a court of law. Or so it goes in Colorado. The fact that I had to jump through so many hoops to change my birth certificate, only to find out that I'm administratively male, but (potentially) female in a legal sense, just pissed me right the F off. So I created this cartoon, with some obsessive doodling around it. Doodling is good for work and the bus. And I think I channeled some hard core job stress right into this cartoon, too. The cartoon reads, "Gender: Administrative: Male or Female. Legal: Male or Female. Personal Choice: Fuck Off! And I dedicate this cartoon to the good folks at Guerilla Travolaka [2]! [3] [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/hpim0313.jpg [2] http://http//guerrilla-travolaka.blogspot.com/ [3] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/hpim0312.jpg
We Connive
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008[1] I've been cartooning of late in the old-fashioned manner, pen and paper. The moleskine has proven useful, as I don't have to rubber band everything together like I do with business cards. I'm glad I'm still cartooning. Keeping at it no matter what is easier than obsessing over whether I'm using the computer or a pen. The cartoon says "We connive in our humiliations." Right. And it's so much easier to blame somebody else, too. But that's another cartoon. Lately I've just been trying to get out of my own way. [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/hpim0314.jpg
Love 2.0
Saturday, April 12th, 2008If you are "always on" (i.e. completely transparent) you will exist always in a state of Grace or complete vulnerability. In this way, no one can harm you. Thanks for the inspiration [1]. The cartoon reads: "There are no rules that say you have to follow the rules." [1] http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004439.html
Death by HMO
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008[1] [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/not-preauthorized.jpg
What Happened?
Monday, April 7th, 2008[1] [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/friends-from-outer-space.jpg
The Quantum Mechanics of a Pregnant Transman
Friday, April 4th, 2008[1] Thomas Beattie [2] is hot right now. Pregnant transmen boggle our imaginations. Pregnant? you say. And he says he is a man?? How can this be?!? Mr. Beattie's claims that the FtM community hasn't been very supportive of him. While I've only read positive support for his decision (on Facebook in particular), I've seen this negative behavior before. Way back in the '90s (which belies current statements that Thomas Beattie is the world's first pregnant man) Matt Rice got stalked on-line by another FtM, enraged that Mr. Rice would choice to bear a child after declaring himself a man. Vague and not so vague threats were made. That degree of hatred suggests to me that we've not really evolved beyond our own instilled binary notions of gender. That after all this time, after Kate Bornstein [3] and Riki Ann Wilchens [4] and Judith Butler [5] and genderqueer, and fuck the binary, all of us - and most certainly transsexuals - believe that our biology is really real. We believe that our biology - manifest in our bodies - really determines our gender. But I want to delve into biology as it is manifest in our social and cultural practices. That is to say, I want to discuss how biology, and all of science, is socially constructed. The progressive left's efforts at gender radicalism point out - rightfully so, I believe - that gender is largely a set of socially agreed upon scripts. Where transfolks and genderqueer people run into trouble is when we change those scripts. But in this rubric, while we have popularized the phrase gender as performance [6] almost ad naseum, we have not similarly popularized the phrase science as performance. So I ask, why? Why, despite the efforts of feminist scholars Donna Haraway [7], sociologist Bruno Latour [8] and others, do we on the progressive left still believe that science is a set of facts that exist outside the instruments we have used to discover this facts, that these facts exist throughout time (i.e. metahistorical), and that these facts do exist outside our thinking about them. In essence, we're still dating Newton [9] (universalism) while Heisenberg [10] (relativism) is our man. Even as I write this last sentence, I'm thinking, "Oh God. Science! Math! Physics! Calculus! They are never going to read on." We ignore science because we're often not very good at it - if grades are the determining factor - but we do so at our own peril. I wish not to be alarmist but rather to suggest that when we ignore science as part of the stories we tell about our gender, we fail ourselves. Failing to grasp all the plot points, and the complexities those plot points suss out, that adding this character Science to our story brings out, we resign ourselves to the very binary we seek to dismantle. Over the next several posts I will talk about the history of science, the construction of scientific facts, the inaccuracy of terms like natural and biology, quantum mechanics, and how of this relates to Mr. Thomas Beattie. Stay tuned and thanks for reading. [1] http://jaysennett.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/performativity.JPG [2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/31/pregnant-man-new-photos-r_n_94250.html [3] http://www.tootallblondes.com/KatePages/kate_bornstein.htm [4] http://www.3dcom.com/tgfs/docs/rikipt1.html [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler [6] http://www.cla.purdue.edu/English/theory/genderandsex/modules/butlerperformmainframe.html [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour [9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton [10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
