New beginnings

I haven't published a post on this blog for a year.

I could make excuses (I've been busy, I haven't had time, etc.) but the truth is that I'm not sure how to go about this blog anymore.

A lot of the topics I've discussed here in the past are based on feminist theory of different types, and it has come to the point where I don't feel I'm adding anything to the conversation (simply because there are much more prepared and knowledgeable voices already saying the things I want to say). There's also another issue, one that I'm uncomfortable writing about, but which I feel I should be honest about: I find myself censoring myself a lot on this blog. A lot of my opinions on sex and gender don't necessarily agree with the latest feminist theory from the theorists I like, and that makes me uneasy, like perhaps I'm not a good person. To put it briefly, I believe that biological sex exists and that it is a binary. I don't think that it affects individual people's abilities or characters, but I do think that on average, it might skew things differently for biologically male and biologically female individuals. Of course, I know that there are people who fall outside the binary, but I don't necessarily think this makes it less of a binary. It just means that there are exceptions to something that is generally a rule. More than this, I believe that without the binary a lot of feminist theory wouldn't make sense, because without a biological difference on which gender differences are based, it would be impossible to discuss the discrimination of a group (if humans were completely homogeneous in respect to sex, I don't see how gender differences could have been established). This doesn't mean that I think men and women should be treated differently (I think we should be treated equitably), nor does it mean that I think an individual is more likely to be one way or another simply because of their gender.

I am still very much engaged with feminist thought, and I am still going to remain a vocal defender of the rights of women and other genders that have historically been discriminated against, but I'm not sure I'll keep writing about it on this blog, because I feel my ideas are unoriginal and you can learn more from reading other people who have a much better analysis than I do of the subject (a quick google search for feminism, womanism, gender theory, etc. will get you to many of the resources I've used to learn in the past).

This being said, I really miss writing. I miss typing and I miss trying to put my thoughts down and (being the attention whore that I am) I miss people randomly commenting about what I write. So I'm going to go ahead and rebrand. I may end up once again writing about feminism, or writing about ethics and biology, because these are all topics that fascinate me, but I'm going to try and stay away from those topics as much as possible on this blog. Instead, I'm going to turn this space into what it was meant to be from the start: somewhere to publish my fiction writing. I've been doing a lot of it lately, all loosely related, and I feel that publishing some of it here will make me more consistent about storylines that go together and standalone pieces that I should finish.

To start with, I'm setting myself the task of publishing something here every two weeks, starting this Friday. I hope you keep reading.