Today is the essay hand in for Media, Identity and Diversity. My chosen essay title was; “Consider the performance of gender, and transgressive possibilities for sexual identities.”

Initially I started writing and really struggled to get words onto the page. I got to 600 words and decided to call it off. I arranged a chat with Chris Pullen as I had asked him to provide me with some documentary films about gender performance. During this chat he was able to suggest other books and films to look at and so I was able to understand the topic a little more, which gave me a better angle to write the essay. I actually understood how things fitted together.

David Gauntlett seems to make Judith Butler talk sense – if anyone has ever tried reading Butlers work, you’ll know its full of long winded and complicated ways of saying things, where as Gauntlett seems to put them into modern context so that you can relate to it. That guy is a dude!

I completed my essay in time of the original deadline before it was moved, which was quite handy really as it means now I have a half week extra to do reading and research for my Media, Censorship and Regulation essay (which is due in on the 6th May). I’m still not entirely sure which title I’m going to choose for this one, but we’ll see.