Category: Identity
Posts about Identity, Virtual Identity, Online Identity, Nymwars, etc
Supporting Parents with Autistic Kids
Keeping up with the…well, anyone, really! Postcard family we are not. My life revolves around my…
Walk softly but carry a big stick
DAY TO DAY If you were to see me on the street I’d prolly not even stick…
Women Adventurers
Last week I rented a store in the town center on Marblehead in Second Life New England….
Avatar & Identity – Mass Effect (2)
I’m not sure if you remember, but aaages ago, when the year was still called 2012 and…
Avatar & Identity – Mass Effect (1)
Yordie’s excellent posts about Becoming Someone Else reminded me of my duty to write part 2 of…
Perception, projection, reflection
Quan Lavander invited me to participate in a show at the Art India Gallery in Second Life…
Becoming Someone Else – Part 2
Second Life can be like MMORPG games in many regards, there are “players” who role play exclusively. There…
Becoming Someone Else – Part 1
This salon has professional authors with qualifications in education, psychology and other professions who explore identity and virtual identify. I…
On being delightful…
“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who…
Pride & Prejudice, Dissertation Remix
Given our discussion yesterday on stereotypes and prejudices in SL and other virtual worlds, I thought I’d…
Pride & Prejudice
Reading Ravanel’s fantastic article on identity in online gaming environments reminded of my initial shock at the…
The right question
I need your help. I am putting together a real life performance using Second Life and I…
The Monster Within
I don’t think that I would be exaggerating if I said that I’ve always loved to write….
Open call for avatars for “Second Skin” a performance art piece
This is an open call for avatars. I am putting on a Second Life > Real Life…
Confession of Faith
Another perspective on recent discussions here on the perception of beauty, the projection of identity and the…
Team Paglia
Kris’s inclusion of a quote by Naomi Wolf in her last post (see “This is my body!”)…
This is my body!!
I have been completely exhausted lately, so haven’t had a chance to post anything. I am so…
What Would Cindy Sherman Do?
While I have been focusing on Marcel Duchamp and/or Rrose Selavy for the last couple of days…
A Game between Me and Me
I came across this clever YouTube video yesterday while brushing up my knowledge of Rrose Selavy (Duchamp’s…
The Identity Factory
In the wake of all these great posts on identity in virtual worlds (and RL – thanks,…
What Identity Is(n’t)
Finding Yourself from Botgirl Questi on Vimeo. Identity can be many things: costume, tool, vehicle, weapon, armor,…
Life imitating art, imitating beauty?
What is this power that beauty holds over us? What is beauty anyway? Ok, so this question…
Beauty is the Beast
For the past couple of days, I’ve been dissecting/overanalyzing/pondering Kris’ performance/post “The Bald and the Beautiful.” What…
The Bald and The Beautiful
So in April I was sitting at work in a busy ER and I had an ‘aha’…
My Genetic Muse
This is my Aunt Natalie with two of her five hundred dolls. In addition to being an…
Creative Archaeology 101
I’ve been writing songs for as far back as I can remember. My earliest childhood memories include…
Cherrybomb: The Band That Never Was
Some people don’t see a connection between truth and fiction. I get that. But the truth…
2011 VWBPE Keynote on Virtual Identity
This is a recording of a presentation my human counterpart and I made together at the 2011…
No one can steal my identity (in heaven)
This is a strange little surrealist trip juxtaposing fluid avatar image deconstruction with a gospel song about…
Pictures Don’t Tell Stories
Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animal or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects…