Fantastic Voyage in progress

As I type these words, a tiny camera is bravely swimming through my insides, snapping a photo a couple of times a second. I even got to watch the start of its journey, as it made its way from my stomach to the start of my small intestine - weird, but not as icky as you might think. There are electrodes taped all over my tum and they're connected to a portable recording pack thing slung over my shoulder, which will later upload its home movie to a computer for doctorly analysis. Forget jetpacks and flying cars - we are living in the future!

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"... it's worth asking why FTM [Female to Male] drag has gained MTF's acceptance in neither mainstream popular culture nor queer communities... MTF [Male to Female] drag is about performing, and often ridiculing, femininity - a state that, in its exaggerated drag form, is fake, plastic, shallow, and lacking in power. FTM drag is about performing and poking fun at masculinity, a privileged, powerful state that is impossible to 'perform' anyway because it's so darn natural and normal. Many drag kings can pass as male, and that means both questioning male privilege and calling attention to it - unacceptable in a patriarchal society that depends on the naturalness and invisibility of such privilege. Could FTM's lack of acceptance be due to the fact that it presents a much greater threat to gender roles than MTF?"

- Donna Jean Troka, writing in Bitch magazine in 2000. (Her essay, "When We Were Kings", is also in the collection The Drag King Anthology, edited by Troka, Kathleen LeBesco, and Jean Bobby Noble.)