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Posted under Being RSG, Higher Learning, Roller Derby, Rose City Rollers by Recovering Straight GirlматрациAbout Summer? It hasn’t come yet. Everyone on Twitter and Facebook and in real life are all complaining about the weather and I get it. The weather totally sucks ass. My garden is getting to look so beautiful but things can not grow without sunshine and we have not had any sunshine to speak of for longer than a day at a time. And it rains all the time and I’m totally sick of it.
It’s useless to complain about the weather because there isn’t a thing one can do about it, but it certainly does make one feel a bit better and I do take some comfort in knowing that a month from now it will be over 100 degrees and my air conditioner will freeze up and I’ll be miserable and hot. I can’t wait.
There’s a lot going on in Portland today. It’s PRIDE weekend of course and that’s always fun. It is also the Rose City Rollers Championship Bout! Cher’s team, the Guns N Rollers will be playing for either third or fourth place, (We’re Number Three!!!) I’m hoping that they will win so that they are not the winners of losers two years in a row, but however it turns out, it will be an incredibly well-fought and well-played game, I’m sure.
I’m helping to put together the new blog for the league and have recruited some very good writers who are contributing some amazing material, check it out, link to it, comment. Please.
Also my latest column came out yesterday in Just Out and it may be interesting to the fellow RSG’s out there. Please let me know what you think.
Finally, my grades came out the other day and I’m happy to report that I completed another term of higher education with a 4.0 GPA. Not bad for a deadbeat I suppose! It is a very good feeling to work hard towards something and know that it is all for a good reason! Life is pretty damn good!!!
“we as a community stop trying to prove that we can’t change and instead own that we wouldn’t want to”
I LOVE this. I am also, for the most part, a social constructionist and while this may not be a popular position in the gay community, many women’s studies experts (of which I am not one) consider it to be academic holy writ. Interesting how different communities can interpret things differently.
Congrats on the 4.0. See you tonight, maybe. LRSD is doing opener and half time so if you have a sec, come say hi. Go Number Three!!
Interesting article. I feel like I was born a lesbian, but was raised to repress it by being indoctrinated into the Catholic religion, and not being around any queer people until I was in high school. I also think that the fact that I didn’t feel different from other girls growing up (I wasn’t a tomboy and fit in to the heteronormative social construct) led me to believe I was heterosexual. I definitely knew something was up when I was marrying my ex-husband, though. I knew that I shouldn’t be marrying him, but felt forced into it. I loved him as a person, so it was confusing. Anyway, I haven’t met too many RSG’s like me that feel 100% lesbian identified, feel like they will always be with women, and feel like they were born that way.
Wow – 4.0 – pretty good.
Thank you for your column, I am a 40 yr old latebian who is currently separated from my husband. Every post, every column, every blog that chronicles our struggles, expresses our feelings and shines a light on our stories goes a long way towards acceptance (societal and self).
Thanks for all you are doing. And congrats on the 4.0!
went to my first roller derby bout a few weeks ago and AM IN LOVE!!! so very cool, and cannot wait until next month…and am crazy enough to be scheduling my weekend work commitments around the bouts for the rest of the season!
so…are there Guns N Rollers stickers or swag? can we swap???
send me an email
I LOVE the term latebian. I’m only 32, but thank goodness I realilzed it now, as I was pretty miserable there for awhile.
Thank you so much for both your blog and your column. I just found my way here today, and must admit to being completely lost at the moment. I am 34 years old and over the past 3 months, have fallen in love with the most wonderful woman I’ve ever known. I lost her just yesterday because I couldn’t find the courage to leave my current life, and I am devastated and uncertain what to do.
I never realized that others had been in a similar situation. I come from a very small town, was raised in a very strict and conservative family. In this journey, that I have just begun, it is nice to know that at least, I am not alone.
Thank you
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