Girls In The Men's Room

One of the teeny things I want from now on now that I have my own place: a bookshelf devoted solely to books about gender/queer theory and sexuality.

I only own three such books right now, but I have quite a few on my wish list (how the fuck do I not own Gender Outlaws or Gender Trouble>?). Right now the books I have are on the shelf in the closet to keep them away from my grandmother while I was moving, but once we get things settled and I have the cash for another bookshelf, they're going out in the open (well, in a shelf in my room, so still behind a door but you know). I refuse to be ashamed of the fact I'm trying to become a better being in all ways, including sexual.

The birthday presents I ordered for myself I arrived today. I got

Secretary DVD. The case is now in not so good shape. They put two stickers on the back, which took far too much to get off. I dinged the case a bit with my key, and then the nail polish remover I used to finally get them off spilled between the outer plastic and onto the paper cover, which will surely dry a bit winrkled. I'm trying to not get upset about this by thinking that symbolically, it's perfect for that film for the outside to be just a bit marred.

I also got The New Bottoming Book and The New Topping Book, the second of which I'm reading now. I'm only in the intro, and this line just...yeah.

[referring to The New Bottoming Book] We expected howls of protest from tops over out insistence that bottoms are powerful, beautiful, and irreplaceable...and we heard back from a whole bunch of tops saying "Well, it's about time"

Just one of the bits that's already hit me. Man. *goes back to book*