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Title: The subtle process of transformation
Post by: SandraJane on September 07, 2012, 05:57:43 PM
Post by: SandraJane on September 07, 2012, 05:57:43 PM
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The subtle process of transformation
by Eva Hayward @hayeva | September 05, 2012
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-subtle-process-of-transformation/Content?oid=3140976 (http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-subtle-process-of-transformation/Content?oid=3140976)
Summer has begun its ebb. Do you feel it? Not quite perceptible, the start of autumn is like smelling a change in temperature. It's still hot and humid, yet we register a difference at the overlapping edge of our senses. Perhaps change usually has this character because it resides just beyond the human scale of things, like the climate or evolution. We cannot see the mountainside erode, but somehow we sense it nonetheless.
Change seems constantly on my mind: political change, climate change. And tucked away, sex change. It's my experience, after all.
Like a storm's energy before its bright beaks of lightning and fisted thunder, sex's transformation starts imperceptibly. In general, we pretend sex is obvious, some reductive algebra of chromosomes and physiology, but as we've slowly come to realize, sex is many processes that include X and Y chromosomes, hormones, gonads, internal sex structures and external genitalia, as well as history, culture, environment and other variables still to be named.
The subtle process of transformation
by Eva Hayward @hayeva | September 05, 2012
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-subtle-process-of-transformation/Content?oid=3140976 (http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/the-subtle-process-of-transformation/Content?oid=3140976)
Summer has begun its ebb. Do you feel it? Not quite perceptible, the start of autumn is like smelling a change in temperature. It's still hot and humid, yet we register a difference at the overlapping edge of our senses. Perhaps change usually has this character because it resides just beyond the human scale of things, like the climate or evolution. We cannot see the mountainside erode, but somehow we sense it nonetheless.
Change seems constantly on my mind: political change, climate change. And tucked away, sex change. It's my experience, after all.
Like a storm's energy before its bright beaks of lightning and fisted thunder, sex's transformation starts imperceptibly. In general, we pretend sex is obvious, some reductive algebra of chromosomes and physiology, but as we've slowly come to realize, sex is many processes that include X and Y chromosomes, hormones, gonads, internal sex structures and external genitalia, as well as history, culture, environment and other variables still to be named.