tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22234799.post6254533929249270518..comments2024-01-13T23:32:12.331-06:00Comments on Slaves of Academe: Cold City Notebook: Winter's TwilightOso Rarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11345231159759787852noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22234799.post-12587368875481788352008-03-12T15:16:00.000-05:002008-03-12T15:16:00.000-05:00What is an amazing and livable city to some people...What is an amazing and livable city to some people can be a stifling nightmare to another. It seems to me that one's race and sexuality inform that difference a great deal (as well whether one decided to have children or not).GayProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11289510184782252498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22234799.post-51417478503904783242008-03-11T21:06:00.000-05:002008-03-11T21:06:00.000-05:00Oh, honey, when you prepare your feast, invite me!...Oh, honey, when you prepare your feast, invite me! I'm not emerita, but I sure am crabby right now.momohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149328149132703479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22234799.post-49534142943154503632008-03-08T21:26:00.000-06:002008-03-08T21:26:00.000-06:00i grew up in the midwest, but moved to nyc when i ...i grew up in the midwest, but moved to nyc when i was 11, and since then, have felt the bizarre yet hilarious disconnect between the lutheran effacement and cosmopolitanism of nyc. in short, the first part of your post made me laugh out loud.<BR/><BR/>the second part gets at, as you suggest, something that seems if not uniquely academic, at least the oft shared academic experience of being an alien. <BR/><BR/>i live in a place so other, a place i never imagined i would consider living, for many of the reasons you highlight, but worse to me (in some ways, though camp to me on others), and now we are likely here. maybe forever. at least for a long time. the feeling of dying alone has come up in conversation, actually, like how can we toil, live, die here?<BR/><BR/>i think we live in a fantasy that we'll go back to die. i hope you can if you can't ever feel home in cold city.gwoertendykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00542058287462910446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22234799.post-89832428365265601282008-03-08T14:12:00.000-06:002008-03-08T14:12:00.000-06:00Funny, after I published the piece I thought more ...Funny, after I published the piece I thought more about the racial-ethnic angle, which is hinted at but not elaborated. And I do think that is also a major piece, perhaps an inchoate one, but present nonetheless. Perhaps I can delineate this by way of a brief example.<BR/><BR/>I downloaded a bunch of dance mixes the other day, great 12" remixes and funky Black and Latina diva numbers, and as I listened, really wanted to dance with my buddies someplace where people still dance to and appreciate the art of what used to be called in the 1970s the discaire. And I don't have that here: my potential dancing partners live in Toronto, Montréal, New York, Los Angeles, or Geneva, where they no doubt are at this very moment cutting a groove surrounded by other hot, sweaty, beautiful gay men and lesbians of all colors. <BR/><BR/>I do feel marooned here from "people like me," at the risk of sounding narcissistic. What I really mean is people with the same socio-cultural perspectives and interests, who offer a comfortable, if fantastical, space of community, especially Black and Latina/o LGBT folks. <BR/><BR/>My identity is not frozen here, of course (and pardon the pun, after a rather long winter), but does seem to be immediately disconnected from the flows that give it body and meaning.Oso Rarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11345231159759787852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22234799.post-15129709051457022642008-03-08T13:58:00.000-06:002008-03-08T13:58:00.000-06:00Wonder how your ethnicity works into this?Wonder how your ethnicity works into this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22234799.post-13066251760535976492008-03-08T09:29:00.000-06:002008-03-08T09:29:00.000-06:00This post is so beautiful, and also so precise in ...This post is so beautiful, and also so precise in its identification of a particular cultural attitude. I always wondered why I never was comfortable living among all those nice folks in the Midwest. Now I finally know why. Thanks.squadratomagicohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977502780584567298noreply@blogger.com