What are you into? D20? Warcraft? Halo? Leslie Feinburg?

[the_fantastic_ms_fox]

I want to get back into geekery - especially sci-fi and roleplaying. I find geek spaces are intellectually engaging in a way which I find few other spaces to be. The problem I find is that a lot of geek spaces are disinterested in applying the intellectual vigour they value so highly to social justice and/or anti-oppression. This said, geekery is changing in this regard - the larp gender dynamics have shifted, and I've seen more women playing cross-gendered. This said, I find that I've changed more.

I like anti-oppression activist spaces too, but a girl needs some hobbies, y'know?

For those of you into Queer psych, this is an example of stage 6 of the Cass Identity Model. In this state, known as "Synthesis" the... uh... homosexual (the Cass is kinda old, and while I'm up their on the Kinsey scale, it's not the main source of the changes in my life if you know what I mean) stops seeing The Gay as their locus of their identity, and reintegrates zerself with society, just from a different point of view..

One possible solution: find other geeks with an interest in social justice.

Comments

[donnaidh-sidhe.livejournal.com]

You know, I just realized that I never consciously, if ever, went through the stages of that identity model when it comes to my various differences. Maybe it's just that I realized very early on that I was intellectually/cognitively different from most everyone else, had the crisis, and then applied the acceptance I gained from that to other aspects in my life in which I differed.

[koppermoon.livejournal.com]

*nods*
See "Criticisms of the Model" at the foot of the article.

Models, of course, are simplifications, and I find that one may visit the stages of a model, but hardly ever in a linear fashion. One may spiral through them (with greater insight each time) or may zig-zag from stage to stage as the forces of life and change buffet them.