Fat Femmes, hott, and me

[susanstinson]

Well, I know we were talking about serious literary matters, but a friend just gave me the following description

Did you know that there's an ickle blurb on you (with a picture!) in the February edition of DIVA magazine? They have a section called "Uppers and Downers". Going down are "Lesbian Serial Killers", "Stereotype threat" and "L Word Jealousy" and on the up are "Fat Femmes, the word "hott" and YOU!!!

Next to a very lovely picture of you looking very happy, it says: "Susan Stinson: Hurray! The most criminally underrated dyke novelist in the world has a new book forthcoming. If Venus of Chalk is half as good as her previous work, including Fat Girl Dances With Rocks and Martha Moody, we'll all be happy readers this spring. Pester www.firebrandbooks.com for an advance copy."

All I can say is that charlottecooper rocks. Hard.

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[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks, thanks, Hanne. It's flustering me and pleasing me, both. (What, no longer belt sander of the patriarchy?)

[misia.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know, I'll still sand the patriarchy down to a nubbin, but a girl needs a change of pace now and then.

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[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. (well, except for recognizing the references in your new tag -- I'm not up on Greece of any era.)

[misia.livejournal.com]

Pelagius wasn't actually Greek, he was probably of British Isles (no one's sure quite where) origin, but more pertinently he was a Christian scholar/philosopher of the fourth century whose work was both popular in its day and, not surprisingly given its tenets, condemned as heretical by the Church. Pelagius, who refused to believe in the idea of "original sin" or of a special state of grace that devolves onto the person due to baptism (among other things) believed essentially that human capacities are given by God and are in and of themselves neutral, it being relevant only how the individual uses and develops those capacities. He also thought that the idea of divine Grace being the key that lets Christians do their Christian thing was a load of hooey, and that any human being could be virtuous (or not) as an issue of will.

Unsurprisingly, Augustine regarded Pelagius as his personal nemesis. Pope Innocent I was also none too big a fan. Ultimately, the 8 tenets of what is now called the Pelagian Heresy were "corrected" through the canonization of eight corresponding points of Church doctrine under Pope Zosimus, during the Council of Carthage of 418 CE.

As a champion of free will and personal investment in continuously-developed ethical systems, and a believer that one does not have to belong to a particular fan club in order to engage with the Divine, I consider myself at least partially a Pelagian, so there's the "quasi-Pelagian" part.

Philoparthenos is Greek, but it's easy Greek. Philo = friend of, liker of; parthenos = virgin.

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[susanstinson.livejournal.com]

Interesting and cool, both. Philoparthenos -- perfect! And summary of quasi-Pelagian is the perfect transistion to get me back to my new novel working on Jonathan Edwards -- 18th century puritan minister and a big believer in by grace and faith alone.