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<div>Dear Sean C Lynch Painting and others,</div><div><br></div><div>For those of you who want to unsubscribe from the list, please do so yourself, instead of adding even more emails to our disgruntled subscriber email collections.</div><div><br></div><div>Below is the unsubscribe info that Mary Bucholtz sends out to the list periodically and that you received in an email when you subscribed to the list. Good luck. 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Yes, it is sometimes awkward to find the appropriate term <br>without discomforting anyone. In the continuum of the gender identity <br>between femininity and masculinity, as stated earlier, I will focus on the <br>women on the far end of masculinity. I am not focusing on their <br>sexuality; thus, I will not mention them as butch lesbians, dykes, studs, <br>or else. I will include heterosexual tomboys and girl-jocks in my study, <br>so I welcome all women of any sexual background but of specified gender <br>category with the presence of masculinity. Simultaneously, they need to <br>be native signers as well.<br><br>As a native signer myself, I find it difficult to settle on a single sign <br>for "masculine" without making any establishment or compounded sign. I <br>have seen several variations for that sign. The most popular sign for <br>that word resembles to "MACHO" or "BUTCH." If I was to be transliterate <br>in writing, it does not seem appropriate to write "…sign language, focused <br>on MACHO women." Would it?<br><br>In addition, all this is in its preliminary stages of research so I am <br>eager to hear any feedback. Thanks for your inquiry.<br><br><br>(I tried to post since last night, and am uncertain if there will be <br>repetitive posts. So please excuse this if it does.)<br><br><br><br>Rezenet Moges<br><br>Research Assistant,<br>Anthropology Department,<br>CSU, Long Beach<br></blockquote><br><br><br><div><font face="arial"><strong>Sean Lynch</strong></font></div> <div><font face="arial"><strong><a href="mailto:sclynchpainting@yahoo.com">sclynchpainting@yahoo.com</a> <br>203 245 4544 <br>203 710 0143 cell</strong></font></div> <div><strong>203 779 5137 fax</strong></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>***************</div><div>Kira Hall, Associate Professor</div><div>Director, Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP)</div><div>Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology</div><div>Campus Box 295</div><div>University of Colorado</div><div>Boulder, Colorado 80309-0295</div><div>Phone: (303)492-2912</div><div>Fax: (303)492-4416</div><div>Web: <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/">www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>