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| User: | sproggenfree (7503698)  Red Headed Femme
"I think, therefore I'm single." --Lizz Winstead |
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| Name: | "A Diarist...with a Megaphone" | |||||
| Location: | Prescott, Arizona, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 1963-07-07 | |||||
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| Bio: | I'm a fortysomething single woman who has kept a paper journal for years, and finally decided to stick my toe in the electronic waters. I know LiveJournal is primarily the province of the young, which is partly why I chose it. Perhaps a generation gap is unavoidable, but I want to minimize it as much as possible. This means I need to keep in touch with the thoughts, dreams and aspirations of a younger generation. I work as a pharmacy technician in an institutional pharmacy, so I see a side of this country's long-term-care system not many people are exposed to. It's sad and horrifying, and I will be posting on it, discussing subjects ranging from the callousness of insurance companies to the incompetence of (some) nurses. I will also post on a great many other topics, including but not limited to: hair bands, the 80s, religion, politics, people I think are stupid, and last but not least, feminism. My entrance to feminism is a bit delayed, due to a religious, insular childhood. I began thinking about the world, the patriarchy and my place in it about twelve years ago, after a failed relationship. That relationship changed me a great deal. It made plain to me what I would and would not accept in a partner, and what I would and would not put up with from men in general. I began to look at people in a different way, noticing things I hadn't paid attention to before. I also began speaking up about such things. Eventually, I began to test the waters of feminist thought. I don't claim to understand all of third-wave feminism, but I like to think I'm learning. Recommended books from my library (this is not intended to be feminist primer, just books I have enjoyed): Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks BITCHFEST: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, edited by Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler The Story of Jane: the Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner The Frailty Myth: Woman Approaching Physical Equality by Colette Dowling The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage by Cathi Hanauer The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler They Went Whistling: Women Wayfarers, Warrior, Runaways, and Renegades by Barbara Holland With Liberty and Justice For All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose by Kate Michelman Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America by Barbara Ehrenreich The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans by Beth Shulman Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World by Linda R. Hirschman The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? by Leslie Bennetts (This list will be updated periodically.) I know I'm not the best feminist, or the best person, I can be as yet. I am very much a work in progress. That's partly why I started this web log, so I can interact with like-minded people. Other Things About Me Favorite Bands (the 80s): Guns n' Roses, Metallica, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, Quiet Riot, Lita Ford, Joan Jett, Heart, Pat Benatar, Winger, W.A.S.P., Styx, Journey, Foreigner, Dokken, Great White, REO Speedwagon, Boston, Blondie, Night Ranger Favorite Bands (currently--note the contrast!): Anna Nalick, Amanda Marshall, Tish Hinojosa, Cheryl Wheeler, Indigo Girls, Dixie Chicks, Loreena McKennitt, Mary Gauthier, Lucinda Williams, Connie Dover, Kate Rusby, Thea Gilmore, Terri Clark, and--ahem!--Aerosmith (Steven Tyler doesn't get older, he gets better) Favorite Movies: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Matrix, They Live, Seabiscuit, Waterworld, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shadowlands, Independence Day, Stargate, Reign of Fire, Jurassic Park, The Truman Show, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome Favorite TV Programs: Beauty and the Beast, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The X-Files, any televised horse racing Favorite Snack Food: Salt & Vinegar potato chips, trail mix, CHOCOLATE | |||||
| Memories: | 15 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |||||
| Interests: | 37: angel, babylon 5, battlestar galactica, beauty and the beast, being childfree, bike riding, books, bridge, buffy, cats, celtic music, classical poetry, dragons, equality, fantasy, feminism, folk music, hair bands, horse racing, intelligent design, journaling, medicine, pharmacy, power walking, reading, science fiction, shapeshifters, spike, spirituality, the 80s, unicorns, vampires, women, working out, working women, world-building, writing | |||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 37: __alt_icons, aerden, amqu, anghara, arkiewriter, blackaire, blue_succubus, ccfinlay, cussedness, devonmonk, editrx, elizabethbear, eugie, faerie_writer, fiction_theory, frost_light, ginmar, jamesenge, jenwrites, johnjosephadams, kaigou, leduck, mabfan, madwriter, markdf, melissa_writing, moschus, nycshelly, rachelcaine, sartorias, shalanna, silenceleigh, sleigh, spacefem, susanwrites, wen_spencer, wlotus | |||||
| Also Friend of: | 1: val_unleashed | |||||
| Member of: | 14: cf_hardcore, cf_hardcore_wf, childfree30plus, christ_feminism, debunkingwhite, faith_feminists, fantasywithbite, feminist_fatale, fortysomething, paidmembers, premade_ljs, sfwa, sfwriters, specficmarkets | |||||
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