ABSTRACT
I’m thinking about subject position. My own. Wondering how you, the reader, are conjuring me in your mind. How do you imagine me to be? What characteristics concern you? Does it make a difference to you to know that as I write this I am wearing white cotton, button-fly briefs, a white cotton undershirt (European cut), hemp sandals and a purple cotton pullover dress? My straight brown hair is short by the standards of some and way too long by others (including the queen who cuts it). I have two pearl earrings in my left ear and a gold ring in my left nipple. I look young for my age, some say. Others think me too precocious for someone as young as I am. I’m not really tall or short. I have an athletic build. Do you assume I’m white? Are you reminding yourself that “jodi”spelled with an “i” must be a girl’s name? Does it matter?
