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This web log follows a lead by Lindsey McCarthy, feminist social scientist, evidently at Sheffield, England, who tasked formerly homeless women with making pictures of their re-homed life and by interstitial discussion describing what that 'iconography' meant to them. Further, additional reading by Feminist social scientists brought to my attention that Iris Marion Young, also a British social scientist in the tradition of symbolic-interactionism/social-phenomenology describes home as a perfect and unique projection of personality. There is, as well a 'visual sociology' which employs pictures/photography.

An icon can be quite arbitrary, in the choice by which it becomes important, in the meaning ascribed to it. All who attend to what I have written in this blog may infer that my .jpg's or other icons/pics presented are 'bald' cultural inclusions. I need to do my own 'stitching' with these icons as chosen to be meaningful in this process here/now of enculturation of this Place will be best-elaborated to reach for 'meaning,' 'the definition of this situation' as psychosocial.
The same will follow re the poems-- really just scribbled verse-- to describe moments (randomly chosen given that May 12, as in 2021, was the 132nd day of that non-leap year, and by RNG on my scientific calculator (TI-30XIIS) to invoke a versified 'reading' of that allotted day, in homelessness. My .jpg's from that period are scanty, and there is more than a small personal and somewhat legal requirement to not use such cultural items (as if they existed, really!) in this ongoing narrative.

A potential and attractive venture will have been to compare my 'culturation' here with the reports that McCarthy's (re)negotiated-identities of her homed participants; there may be some other material in my readings, with unconcealed preference for women in the feminist-sociological tradition, to compare/contrast the 'Delta' between my homing-here as 'hybrid woman,' transF, versus those of the non-transitioning/non-transitioned individuals to whose information/data I have-- or get-- access. YouTube has a wealth of such inclusions, I think focusing on homeless women, but significantly some videos about homeless transgender women.