<div dir="ltr">hi everyone,<div> feeling particularly unfinished this morning as i have a pounding head cold. </div><div><br></div><div>So to situate a body and a practice: This body has has been spiraling around the sun for 58 years. Its habitat is New York City, and has been for 20 years. Its mostly good for writing. It got very good at simulating a million monkeys on a keyboard even if it does not exactly write shakespeare.</div><div><br></div><div>Oh, and since it's come up, in Janary 2018 it decided it really had to live the rest of its life in female form. That what it had felt for so long is a kind of obtuse gender dysphoria that got displaced into other things. </div><div><br></div><div>Its a curious experience: changing the body hormonally and changing its social role through presentation. I can only understand what happens to this body through cultural constructs, but on the other hand those constructs are not entirely causative. </div><div><br></div><div>Like a lot of trans ppl in the early stages of transition i'm pretty fascinating to myself. I finally got to be some sort of cyberpunk techflesh hybrid that is aware of itself because able to monitor changes. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure this is all familar to Sandy. I wonder how many newly hatched trans she has witnessed. Of course it isn't all beer and skittles, even for me. But i wanted to start with the fun stuff. </div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:rgb(0,0,0);padding:5px 0px 0px 5px;margin:0px"><span style="color:rgb(232,46,33)">McKenzie Wark (they/she)</span><br>
<strong>Professor of Media and Culture</strong><br>
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