http://www.thirdeyemag.com Using Creativity to Build Better Communities Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/you-are-in-my-breeding-territory/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/you-are-in-my-breeding-territory/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:13:03 +0000 Robert Jones http://www.thirdeyemag.com/?p=244 Electronic communication networks now construct much of our understanding of reality. The distinct categories of identity that develop in these digital realms along with the interface between the body and these electric fantasies create new possibilities for what some call “computer cross-dressing.” Just as “real world” drag queens disrupt gender categories that were previously considered static, computer cross-dressers deconstruct, explore, and reconstruct new identities. Communities of computer cross-dressers destabilize identity categories so that they are constantly in transit, bearing no stable ontological relationship between what is on the World Wide Web and who is behind the computer. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/you-are-in-my-breeding-territory/feed/ 0