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Jess' Intersecting Identities (includes (Race and ethnicity (where is…

- - - - ''And so I grew in two worlds, immersed in the music of two languages. One world was Wheaties and Milton Berle. The other was fry bread and sage. One was cold, but it was mine; the other was warm, but it wasn’t.'' (8)
    - - Black
        
        for example
        
        I realized I’d hung out on the edges of the Black community with friends after school, but I’d never been deep in the heart of the East Side. “Buffalo is like two cities,” I said. “I’ll bet a lot of white people have never even been to this city.” (74)
        
        "Meg is saying no Blacks will be allowed back at
        Abba’ s for a while” (151)
        
        Jess also gives her level 4 position to a black man, that is a manifestation of solidarity and empathy with other minorities
  - - - Working class
        
        "IT WAS TIME TO FIND a factory job. The butches urged me to try to get into steel or auto. Of course I already knew that. I wasn’t a damn fool. The strength of the unions in those heavy industries had won livable wages and decent benefits." (78)
      - Access to information
        
        "It was Theresa’s job as a secretary at university that opened a window, allowing me to feel
        the hurricane force of change. She brought home pamphlets, and underground newspapers, I
        read about Black Power and Women’s Liberation. I began to understand that outrage against the war was
        much deeper and more organized than I’d realized.."There’s campus rallies and protests almost every day
        now,” she told me, “not just against the war, but to
        open up the schools to everybody.” (150)
  - - - Transgender man
        
        causes
        
        Male gender privilege
        
        leads to
        
        Fear to flirt
        
        Discovery of new fears
        
        like
        
        To not be touched again
        
        Legal limitations
        
        like
        
        Momentarily a cop would arrive. Every bit of information I gave him would be a lie. I was still a gender outlaw—any encounter with the police might end up with me in their custody. (301)
        
        Positive male-like experiences
        
        such as
        
        Job opportunities
        
        "Now she worked as a man on a construction gang" (119)
        
        Social treatment
        
        As a man, Jess finally feels accepted by society and even when she still strugles with those who met them as a woman, in many spaces she is accepted.
  - - - Childhood
        
        victim of
        
        Bullying
        
        for example
        
        “I always loved pansies, but they embarrassed me, too, because that’s what kids used to call me when I was a little girl.” (290)
      - Middle-aged
        
        helping
        
        Her friends' struggles with age
        
        changes her views
        
        “There’s a lot of things I couldn’t accept when I was younger, Grant, like the fact that there’s lots of different ways for butches to be.”... “But now I’m trying to accept people as they are.” (308)
      - Young
        
        differs from
        
        Older Butches
        
        in
        
        flirting
        
        for example
        
        2 more items...
  - - - Lesbian
        
        experiences
        
        Relationships
        
        with
        
        Theresa
        
        portrayed as
        
        3 more items...
        
        Ruth
        
        portrayed as
        
        3 more items...
        
        Milli
        
        "From that moment Jess was her butch and she was her femme"(131)
    - - Hatred
        
        for example
        
        “You fucking he-shes. You stole our jobs..." (152)
        
        said by
        
        The dark-haired man
        
        “What the fuck are you?” he asked quietly. “I can't tell what you are. Maybe we should just find out, huh, guys?" (251)
        
        said by
        
        The leader of the teenage boys
  - - - Emotional Intelligence Issues
        
        "I don’t know how to talk about what I feel. I don’t know if I even feel things like other people do” (p.140).
        
        in her own words
        
        "I felt award dancing and self consciousness being a butch" (99)
        
        in Frankie's words
        
        “Feelings?” “What are those?” (301)
      - target of
        
        Negative stereotypes
        
        such as
        
        ‘’I’m sick of hearing butch used to mean sexual aggression or courage. If that’s what butch means, what does it mean in reverse for femmes?” (317)
        
        violence
        
        exercised through
        
        "Discrimination using a woman to sleep with "he-she" as a joke and telling everyone in the factory" (99)
        
        "Just before he put you on that machine one of the guys saw Kevin removing the safety device...so many people in the world had so much power to control and hurt me"(116)
    - - ''I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?”' (7)
        
        Jess fought very hard to become socially accepted. However, Transitioning back and forth from woman to man makes Jess end up in the middle having both man and woman characteristics. Ends again in ambiguity, right in the place where she started