Diss update

[anghraine]

I suspect most dissertations are like nesting dolls to some degree, but I've kind of surprised myself with the extent that it's like "it looks like it's about family structures and patriarchy" on the surface, but at a deeper level it's specifically about gender essentialism in a context where this is understood as an inborn, fundamentally unequal, binary opposition, and about the way The Cisheteronormative Patriarchal Agenda fucks up people and family relationships.

So at this point, it's as much about the way the pressures placed by gender essentialism warps people as much as it's about misogyny in and of itself, though certainly very much about gender nevertheless. IDK but my advisor thought it was cool, so whatever.

Also my committee's draft is due tomorrow morning ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Comments

[chestnut_pod]

Good luck good luck!

[anghraine]

Thank you!!

[slashmarks]

That sounds really cool! Are you willing to share more about your conclusions re: gender essentialism, if you're not totally sick of writing about it?

[anghraine]

Thank you very much :)

I am delighted to talk about my thing, honestly. I'll make a locked post about it, though, so my entire monologue isn't clearly visible, haha.

[beatrice_otter]

Sounds interesting! Good luck!

[anghraine]

Thanks!