Profile: Ash
You can call me… Ash
I identify as… A flamey pansexual agnostic pro-Palestine Jewish genderqueer FtM-transitioning boything.
As far as third-person pronouns go, … Ze and hir for people who get it; he and him for people who don’t.
I’m attracted to… Grace, intelligence, honesty, compassion, an appreciation for the unusual, a taste for adventure, wordplay, cooking skills, gendered self-awareness, queerity.
When people talk about me, I want them to… …stick up for the reality and reasonableness of who I am.
I want people to understand… …that my life is complicated, but also pretty great, and that I’d rather have their support and celebration than their pity. That my identity isn’t a commentary–pro or con–on theirs.
About Ash
Ash is an artist and craftsperson, living and trying to make a living in the middle of the country. Ze digs ink, paper, and fiber, and could cheerfully work a nine-to-five job that involved sorting, filing, and organizing all three of those things, then dumping them all out and starting over. Most days, Ash is either drawing, printing, book-binding, doll-making, spinning, or knitting; the other days, ze’s probably mucking about in the kitchen.
Ash is also the president emeritus of the best, bad-assest queer group, and a recent MFA graduate in printmaking, which appears to overqualify hir for all available jobs and adequately qualify hir for none, but ze’s pretty excited about it, anyway.
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March 29th, 2011 at 9:13 am |
“overqualify hir for all available jobs and adequately qualify hir for none…” Story of my life.
A favorite New Yorker cartoon. Two people standing out in a field, arms spread out – in scarecrow poses, but dressed in business casual, obviously being scarecrows. One of them says to the other, “English Lit, how about you?”
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Lanthir replied:
March 30th, 2011 at 9:28 am
I would totally be a scarecrow if somebody would pay me minimum wage to do it. And probably feel rich, and grateful for the work.
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March 29th, 2011 at 5:24 pm |
Hey Ash, fancy seeing you here. :)
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March 30th, 2011 at 9:29 am |
Hooray, another queer spinner!
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March 30th, 2011 at 3:22 pm |
Big consensual Queer hugs of Palestinian solidarity, from our rad Jewish puppeteer collective, to yours! <3
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March 31st, 2011 at 12:45 am |
Hey! I know you!
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