A thought (about the Masters)

[laura_seabrook]

Was talking to my counsellor about a lot of things this morning. But something became immediately apparent when I was talking about how upset I'd felt about failing to get my masters application in by the deadline, and later discovering that my idea (completing the Trans Tarot Deck) probably wouldn't be accepted.

She asked me what I have a passion for and without a moment's hesitation said "comics!" And it keeps coming back to this - two projects I mentioned and started back last August:

Gender Transition for Innocents
Examines the queer and trans theory of 'Gender Transition' as theorised in relation to personal and public experience. To be presented finally in a paper format similar to Scott McCloud's 'Understanding Comics' (I hope).

Real Life Test 
Autobiographical account focussed on journeys, transitions, and changes taken by the author (some of which involved religious and gender transitions).

I decided not to go ahead with Real Life Test at the time, and haven't been able to get back to Gender transition for Innocents. I look at communities like transgender and all I see is bitching and division, and it just doesn't encourage doing stuff like that.

But it has occurred to me that rather than do these as "just" web comics, maybe instead I could make them into my Master's work. I'll still need to do research related to it, but this feels right. I feel optimistic again.