I love that you're still fascinated by & working with bathrooms. I was writing about the politics of the bathroom (criticism, not fiction) in 2021 because Halberstam touched upon bathroom panic in a chapter in Female Masculinity, even citing literary references at the time. They said the public bathroom is "a domestic space beyond the home that comes to represent domestic order, or a parody of it, out in the world," which I think about often. It's a space of anxiety and caricature.
The bathroom problem also has an interesting racial history that we can tie into the gender & sexuality (and sexual) history. During the abolishment of Jim Crow laws there were white segragationalists who were using the same rhetoric (about black men preying on white women) that is now being used against trans women preying on cis women.
Lee Edelman also has some interesting writings on the bathroom, but much more tied to cruising/homosexual anxiety than gender performance. There's a somewhat recent book by Sheila L. Cavanagh about Queering Bathrooms that you might also be interested in.
I love this. I love you. You know how I feel about My Little Pony. Aside from my general SOLIDARITY AND RAGE about the endlessly violent and stupid anti-trans bills which seem to multiply like gremlins though gremlins are far better than any of that shit, I also like thinking about how different audiences receive the same work and how we writers need validation for weirdness, queerness, transness, sluttiness, and so many other not conflate-able (nesses). Love this in particular, “Immediately attracted to each other, Pammy and Twilight explore each other’s bodies and their totally different body parts. Twilight brings Pammy back to Equestria with her, where Pammy becomes her true unicorn self.”
Love this and especially turning the space from fear to desire. Thank you
Thanks, Christen! <3
I love that you're still fascinated by & working with bathrooms. I was writing about the politics of the bathroom (criticism, not fiction) in 2021 because Halberstam touched upon bathroom panic in a chapter in Female Masculinity, even citing literary references at the time. They said the public bathroom is "a domestic space beyond the home that comes to represent domestic order, or a parody of it, out in the world," which I think about often. It's a space of anxiety and caricature.
The bathroom problem also has an interesting racial history that we can tie into the gender & sexuality (and sexual) history. During the abolishment of Jim Crow laws there were white segragationalists who were using the same rhetoric (about black men preying on white women) that is now being used against trans women preying on cis women.
Lee Edelman also has some interesting writings on the bathroom, but much more tied to cruising/homosexual anxiety than gender performance. There's a somewhat recent book by Sheila L. Cavanagh about Queering Bathrooms that you might also be interested in.
Thanks for all these resources - looking forward to diving in.
I love this. I love you. You know how I feel about My Little Pony. Aside from my general SOLIDARITY AND RAGE about the endlessly violent and stupid anti-trans bills which seem to multiply like gremlins though gremlins are far better than any of that shit, I also like thinking about how different audiences receive the same work and how we writers need validation for weirdness, queerness, transness, sluttiness, and so many other not conflate-able (nesses). Love this in particular, “Immediately attracted to each other, Pammy and Twilight explore each other’s bodies and their totally different body parts. Twilight brings Pammy back to Equestria with her, where Pammy becomes her true unicorn self.”
Thanks, Carley! <3 you too