"is there any overlap between your earlier work and your sl work?"

[14:19] Tom Bukowski: Azul - overlap question
[14:20] Tom Bukowski: I purposely had the idea of doing something completely different form my Indonesia research, but there are amazing links at a conceptual level
[14:20] Tom Bukowski: my first book is called The Gay Archipelago because I was interested in how Indonesians took this idea "gay" from halfway around the world
[14:20] Tom Bukowski: that was supposed to be Western, just an import
[14:20] Tom Bukowski: and made it real for them, something authentic
[14:21] Tom Bukowski: that linked them up to other gay and lesbian people across the Indonesian archipelago, and in a kind of imagined world archipelago too with gay and lesbian people elsewhere
[14:21] Tom Bukowski: and when I talk like that - you can see the parallels
[14:21] Tom Bukowski: with Second Life, a kind of archipelago of places
[14:21] Tom Bukowski: just hit control-M and look at the map!
[14:21] Gabrielle Riel nods
[14:22] Extropia DaSilva: It is also an archipelago of ideals. Think Gorean culture for one.
[14:22] Azul Draken: or norms
[14:21] Tom Bukowski: so that's been interesting
[14:22] Tom Bukowski: to see where those links pop up, without me planning it.