Scarlet Letters: Artists in Residence: Rahne Alexander

<body background="graphics/background.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#990000" vlink="#666666" alink="#FFFFFF"> <p><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="723"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="TOP" width="478"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="4" width="456"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="TOP"><img src="graphics/residence.gif" width="445" height="80" alt="scarlet letters: artists in residence"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="TOP"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td width="232" align="RIGHT" valign="TOP"><img src="air_rahne/rahne.gif" width="233" height="273" alt="Rahne Alexander"></td> <td align="LEFT" valign="BOTTOM"><font face="Georgia" size="2">Scarlet Letters nonfiction editor </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.xantippe.com/" target="_blank">Rahne Alexander</a> is a recent transplant to Baltimore from Santa Cruz, California. A writer, activist, and troublemaker nonpareil, she writes a regular column called <a href="http://www.xantippe.com/ae/index.html" target="_blank">ars erotica</a>, which she describes as <i>"The continuing saga of a foxy trannygirl who is theoretically looking for a good time."<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </i></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="RIGHT"><img src="graphics/front/prose.gif" width="282" height="40" alt="prose and poetry"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="232" align="LEFT" valign="MIDDLE"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#666666">02.14.03: </font><font face="Verdana" size="1">erotic fiction<br> </font><b><font face="Georgia" size="2">Rahne Alexander: </font><font size="2"><a href="121403_pp_ra.html">Natural Bridges</a></font></b></td> <td align="RIGHT"><img src="graphics/a.gif" width="27" height="27"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="LEFT" valign="TOP"> <p><font face="Georgia" size="2">I traced a thin line with my fingernail up her neck. She craned backwards, just out of my reach and said <i>Not lately.</i> She resumed her rightful position. <i>You're awful bold for such a pretty girl, she said.</i> </font></p> <p><i><font face="Georgia" size="2">Well</font></i><font face="Georgia" size="2">, I said, <i>I know what I want and I know how to get it.</i> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="CENTER"><img src="graphics/front/nonfic.gif" width="282" height="38" alt="nonfiction"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="232"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#666666"><br> 11.25.02: </font><font face="Verdana" size="1">essay & commentary<br> </font><b><font face="Georgia" size="2">Rahne Alexander: </font><font face="Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><a href="112502_nf_ra.shtml">All This, And Brains Too</a></font></b></td> <td align="CENTER"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><font face="Georgia" size="2">Perhaps Jaggar was reducing me to a curvy mimic in pigtails, aping the non-natural fashion of natural women. The rest of the world -- friends, lovers, employers, customers, the creeps who cat-call me from their cars, and, most importantly, me -- sees me as female. I get girl jobs at girl pay, where my girl opinions are ignored and my girl appearance is my chief asset. Feminism still has a lot of work to do.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="232"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#666666"><br> 10.28.02: </font><font face="Verdana" size="1">essay & commentary<br> </font><b><font face="Georgia" size="2">Rahne Alexander: </font><font face="Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><a href="102802_nf_ra.shtml">Girl Talk</a></font></b></td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><font face="Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2" color="#000000">This autogynephilia concept was borne out of an effort to understand <i>why</i> a person would want to become a woman, especially when she faces opponents like genetics, hormones, the pink collar and the U.S. Passport system. To willingly become a woman is illogical and inexplicable when phallusphilia reigns supreme. Suddenly I'm slapping my head and wishing I had a V-8. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="232" align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="Verdana" size="1" color="#666666"><br> 09.16.02: </font><font face="Verdana" size="1">creative nonfiction<br> </font><b><font face="Georgia" size="2">Rahne Alexander: </font><font face="Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif" size="2"><a href="091602_nf_ra.shtml">bullet riddles</a></font></b></td> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="Georgia" size="2">nebraska 1993 + john lotter and thomas nissen appointed themselves sphinx to traveller brandon teena + their riddle: "what are you?" + brandon had to know that there was a price to be paid regardless of whether he answered "boy" or "girl" + since neither answer could satisfy this sphinx, brandon was killed + since sphinxes never share their answers, we may never know what answer would have been satisfactory to save him. </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"></td> </tr> </table> </font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="CENTER"><img src="graphics/onthedottedline.gif"></td> </tr> </table> </font></td> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="220">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="478"><font face="Georgia" size="2"><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="474"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" width="8"><font face="Georgia" size="2" color="#CCCCCC">..</font></td> <td align="CENTER">  </td> </tr> </table> </font></td> <td align="CENTER" width="220"></td> </tr> </table> </p> </body>