#also i just started when monsters speak: a susan stryker reader

[calamitys-child]

Still after yesterday and always in general thinking about the etymological distinction of uncanny (standard English translation meaning 'unknown/unknowable/un-careful' - 'ca canny' in Scots means like, be careful - look to what you know, settle yourself and approach with open eyes, 'canny' meaning cunning/wise/knowledgeable) vs unheimlich (original German coining of the concept - lit. 'unhomelike', familiar in that it's recognised as theoretically Belonging To The Home but Wrong somehow), the distinction not "this isn't anything I know what to do with" but "this is in my safe lived/living space and I Don't Recognise Or Like It", an intruder not a stranger - thinking about the abject not merely as Something Other/Dangerous but specifically meaning Something Dangerous That Is Essential To Define Myself, something that isn't just Not Meant To Be Here/Me but rather that defines What I Am Is Specifically In Relation To Not Being This. Thinking about how the implicit colonialism of defining these things in English rather than their original languages is inherent to their meaning. And Gender as perceived by queerness vs by binaries. And the way even in marginalised spaces a dominant narrative prevails in/for wider awareness