Although it is currently a work in progress, I have solidified some ideas regarding making a creative piece that demonstrates the theory my project is based upon. Since my project is about intersex births and unintelligibility, the creative piece had to reflect this in some way. I decided to write a short story in the style of a Chandleresque private detective story. This fits, since in creating our theories we are acting as detectives, linking pieces of knowledge to form a new cohesive whole and solve the case, so to speak.
In the story, told in first person from the perspective of the private detective, a client comes to the office because someone has stolen their gender. The PI doesn’t bat an eye, and takes the case. Butler tells us that we “undo” each other, and that some people are unintelligible in our society. The client has been “undone” because someone has taken this person’s gender away from them, or worse, dictated their gender to them. The client is unintelligible because his gender has literally been taken away from him, it is impossible to articulate who he is, gender-wise.
By the end of the story, the detective will have found a gender-stealing company called Society Inc., which grinds the stolen genders up and gives them back to people damaged or changed. I might rethink this idea, or change the story to make everything more symbolic and less blatant, but that’s what I have at this point. The main point of the story is to demonstrate, in a fictional way, the theory I build that argues what changes are necessary for intersexed people to become intelligible. Please feel free to comment if you have any ideas or suggestions about this or the project a whole, I could use them.
-Ziev
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