I Got Sunshine On a Cloudy Day
Mar. 1st, 2011 12:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purejuiceAlicia Paulson is getting very close to the heart of the matter of ritual labor.
She became a fulltime crafter after a terrible accident put her into bed for months. She got out of bed. She got a store. She got a blog. She wrote two books.
Now she is waiting to adopt a baby girl, and she is making outfit after outfit for this longed-for but still invisible being.
She has knitted what many commenters think is the most beautiful dress they've ever seen, and it is very, very fine aside from its powerful affect. It is creating the little girl it waits for.
http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/posie_gets_cozy/2011/02/silver-snow.html
Ritual labor is form-conferring. And, as RuPaul says, it's not about the drag, it's about the magic.
She became a fulltime crafter after a terrible accident put her into bed for months. She got out of bed. She got a store. She got a blog. She wrote two books.
Now she is waiting to adopt a baby girl, and she is making outfit after outfit for this longed-for but still invisible being.
She has knitted what many commenters think is the most beautiful dress they've ever seen, and it is very, very fine aside from its powerful affect. It is creating the little girl it waits for.
http://rosylittlethings.typepad.com/posie_gets_cozy/2011/02/silver-snow.html
Ritual labor is form-conferring. And, as RuPaul says, it's not about the drag, it's about the magic.
