Sunday, February 26, 2012

Lovingly, Artfully, Beautifully Adverbed

I posit the idea that individuals in Western cultures, often from a position of privilege, create an identity (i.e.,“He is a dancer,” “She is an officer,” “I am a snark”). There are other vantage points. One can move through the world trying on adverbs: (“I am an individual who is lovingly, artfully, mindfully crafting – oh, say, for example – a still,” rather than “I am a moonshiner.”

One can artfully/mindfully/naughtily perform an action, as a verb (“she is dancing”) rather than the noun (i.e., “he is a rent boy”). Do you see how useful this might prove to be, allowing for a protean expansiveness and a pliant affinity across diverse cultural groups (see “Like Porn, But Different”)?

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