The Law and the Gaze...nope this time its actually the Gays.

It's my first blog post from bed! Which means it should be chiller than its going to be. Because inevitably its not a happy one since I was immersed in Criminal Law all day. First, marijuana laws are found to be proportional since imprisonment is only an option for possession. Next, up the police force people to incriminate a Cree man for killing a person. Finally, a bookstore specializing in selling gay and lesbian materials is discriminated against at the border over a period of a number of years based solely on sexual orientation. My favourite line in the judgment says something to the tune of...since being homosexual inherently involves sex (as its central theme or something) and the materials you are importing are about homosexuals and thus sex, then blah blah blah. It was awesome. But they won...so now I can go get all the homosexual books I want at my local Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium in Vancouver's Davie Village. I'm not gonna lie...I already did buy books there. These are the books I purchased there in September:

1. Fall on Your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald
2. The Way the Crow Flies by Ann Marie MacDonald, which is now autographed by her from the West Coast LEAF Person's Day Wine and Cheese Equality Fundraiser
3. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood

Its a pretty effin solid list if I do say so myself. I love that Jenna took me there, and that I bought them, and because she knew that I would love that I had gone there when we talked about them in Crim and Constitutional. An intersection of my nerdy love for literature and law. And things related to gay people...

Ew the law gets you down a lot of the time. I have to switch it up between the hard to read classes like crim and torts and the boring classes that couldn't trigger anything in life like property or i guess if I had ever read contracts it would go in that category. The word on the street is no more law talk.

Hmmm....things related to gay people. I could go back to that. Things related to gay people are so interesting and diverse and there are so many different experiences of life...and everyone has a story that is like...necessarily a story. People will ask you your story. Everyone has a story even if its nothing much, it exists and becomes a question like where are you from or what are you studying. I think its so interesting. It would be a cool project to just get people's coming out stories and compare and contrast different experiences in a widespread way. People's stories become rehearsed somewhat, but its a very fundamental event and people's eyes take on a special glint when they are narrating it. The first time I was asked what my story was, I had no response. I had to think of what that could possibly entail. Its different for different audiences, but its a standard story. Different phases will be added or excluded based on who's asking...its perpetually ongoing...I'm inarticulate and tired. there's my first gay blog rant too. An evening of firsts.

rach...peacing out from a warmish and cloudy, previously freezing and clear, victoria night.