i'm getting ahead of myself now.

[subjective]

hi. please help me make a bibliography about passing & the politics related to it. passing of any sort. fiction, biographies, histories, theory, everything. not just good things, things that suck too. even if you think i've read it, write it down anyway so i can compile a thorough list.

okay thanks.

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[subjective.livejournal.com]

i had a lot of issues with nickel & dimed, mostly around the methodology. but it's useful for talking about "putting on" class. and i did read the scholinkski book, a few years ago...i should look at it again. i remember being impressed by it. (i'm sure i read somewhere that scholinski changed hir first name, but now i can't find it. hmm.)

[elks.livejournal.com]

i think it's dylan

[cubanvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

i liked nickel and dimed because it hit a more "main stream" crowd of readers, and so i was happy that these issues were finally getting some exposure. but the book also made me angry because my impression of her was a wealthy writer/columnist from florida who "came down" to my level of existence, and couldn't make ends meet. whereas i work the jobs she described all the time and am not going hungry. i just felt that putting yourself in those job situations for a few weeks or months, but knowing what you can go back home to, really kills the authenticity. there is no earnestness psychologically of "how am i going to eat."
whoa. enough of my rant.

[subjective.livejournal.com]

exactly. and also what elke said below about the sarcastic & condescending comments. a lot of people i've talked to argue for the book appealing to a mainstream liberal middle-to-upper class audience, in ways that other work doesn't, but that just doesn't resonate with me that much. eh.

[srl.livejournal.com]

It's now Dylan, as another poster pointed out; and I've heard in other contexts that Scholinski is living as a guy.