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I am not sure I completely understand the assignment, but the one seems obvious. However, if this is a fake secret, then it might be the reverse. I am disturbed by this one.

I agree with this one being a female submitter.

The assignment is to guess who the sender of the postcard is based on the secret and the imagery shared on the postcard. Hopefully, this will make more sense after reading the article. Some of these postcards seem very obvious, but you're right that if the sender is lying or trying to portray themselves as someone else(an alternate identity) than the postcard takes on a different meaning. They may evoke different feelings.

After the reading, I am trying to challenge my first responses. I seemed to of assumed they were just male or female, never thinking that maybe transgendered would come into play with these secrets. Since these are anonymous it means that any of these secrets could be a man portraying a woman, a woman portraying a man, or even purposely aiming their secret towards a gender they do not necessarily associate with.

Even though an intimate revelation is sent the anonymity of the sender allows for the sender to keep the secret of sending the postcard. Post Secret reveals secrets, but also keeps them.

This sounds like the stereotype of a heterosexual male fantasy.

Lindsay, I agree with you that this seems like a hetero male fantasy. After reading the article I am thinking of this idea of "trying on" and "role-taking."

I read today a 2007 article in Hypatia (v22, v3, pp. 30-45) by Michaele L. Ferguson on identity. It fits with my belief in process theory/actor network theory, and my position posited in several of my articles concerning a pedagogy of perpetual displacement (i.e., a theory of feminist democracy of continual self-critique, perpetually calling every notion into question). A premise of Ferguson's position is that "The meaningfulness of a claim to identity rests upon ongoing social practices that make such a claim intelligible. ... Without corresponding to live, ongoing practices, claims to identity cease to be meaningful. ... The target audience of the performance of identity matters. ... The practices in which identity is manifest are often overlapping, inconsistent, and even contradictory. ... the more complex the practices are that sustain it, the harder it is to dismantle or alter-like gender " (pp. 39-40).

This might be a female. I guess the secert is for herself.

Yes, I think so too. The handwriting is bold at the top and meek/lower case at the bottom. I think this supports the idea that the person is talking to themselves. We think of anorexia as being associated with young women.

I agree, the mask leads you to believe that the individual is hiding themselves.

I thought this was written to someone. I can imagine a male identity speaking this to a female identity. Male anorexia feels much more hidden / doesn't make me think of this image.

This one also seems fairly obvious. I would assume by the picture and the reference to a husband that a female wrote this one

I think so too. This one seems pretty much obvious. The sender would probably be female.

I am guessing the author/artist of this postcard is female.

I also guess that sender might be female. I heard that Irritable Bowel Syndrome is more to female.