Multiplicity

1) You know what? I think I finally fuckin' got it! At least, I try to explain so to Stel. It's that whole "affinity" thing. Kinda just like the drama that exploded a week ago between my queer "colored" female friends and my queer "white" female friends. Though there was open hostility there, with the whole "white priviledge" stuff, basically the former created a political group in my city EXCLUSIVE for "Queer Women of Color", and the latter group made an uproar about discrimination. If the first group had just explained right off officially and formally, instead of making it a "who's the more racist" battle on Livejournal, a lot of madness would have been avoided. Such as "you will not be able to give input in certain meetings where we will be discussing Queer Women of Color issues because you haven't experienced specifically or identify with those issues"-- something like that. Then again, the other team didn't like being labeled as "privileged white folks" right off the bat by the QWoC, because many have known struggle and oppression their own ways. Similarly, I FUCKIN' HATE IT when singletons pigeonhole me, but I can see Stel get excited about ANYTHING that even remotely describes our experience as wonderful and bubbly and a cause for sharing and joy and stuff. We don't have a lot of multiplie-self-affirming-positive-acition-shite in our life except from our multiple-girlfriend-system. (Whaddaya call that, anyways? Say you're dating a female-bodied system but not just the females in 'em?) So is it really more just an issue that the only people who can TRULY describe multiple experiences and theory are, of course, multiples? Of that issue, I completely understand.

-Aster of Hexpiritus