CURRENT MISSION

Getting through graduate school without pulling my hair out.

ABOUT ME

I'm 29 and identify as a queer femme. I have a lovely 8 year old who spends half his time with his dad and half with me and my partner, Jaime. I love school and I love art, women & gender studies, popular culture, history, etc. We're easy going (Jaime more so than me... haha).

PHILOSOPHY

I'm just here to be as happy as I can be and to pursue the things that make me happy. Cliched, but true.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none

Interests

images of birds, vispo, confessional poetry, our cats (lola and maddy), our fish tank, our scrapbook in which we chronicle every detail of our lives which clearly couldn't be interesting to anyone but me and jaime, antiquin', books in general, folkart, music duh!, movies, hiking, pie, swimming in lakes not the damn ocean everyone likes the ocean and it's pretty and all but lakes are better, maintaining the illusion that i don't practice abject consumerism, anything art nouveau, panopticism, christmas, my hair, the RED SOX and jaime's you-remind-me-of-manny-i'm-so-happy-i-could-die smile, captivity narratives in all their forms, tattoos, the 19th century, feathers, making myself feel guilty about eating meat again, wine coffee vodka water in that order, tap dancing (i was a national champ- well, 2nd place anyway), archivin' stuff, long letters and old typewriters, collecting pill boxes/old tobacco tins/sheet music/19th-century ephemera, queer & feminist activism, gluing things, nailing things, painting things, wrapping wire around things, linoleum prints, aubrey beardsley/oscar wilde/peacocks/dandyism, discovering new bands on the eve of their big "break-through," catholic iconography, my master's thesis on the visual culture of late 19th-early 20th century postcards and the discursive and rhetorical strategies/paradigms in which their epistemological texts engage, kittens, horses and UNICORNS, keeping my one plant alive, postcards, the muppets, sewing and textiles, thrift store shopping and brightly colored outfits.

• cats
• horses
• birds
• fish
• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• poetry
• tattoos
• dancing
• tap dancing
• wine
• coffee
• shopping
• thrifting
• movies
• scrapbooking
• painting
• music
• fishing
• hiking
• swimming
• gender studies
• history
• lakes

Music, Movies, and Books

favorite books of 2007-2008, in no particular order (obviously books i read this year, not books that came out this year):Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. Sideshow, U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination by Rachel Adams. Candlemas Bay by Ruth Moore. Bandit Letters by Sara Messer. Art in a Season of Revolution by Margaretta Lovell. Awful Disclosures by Maria Monk. Fire & Roses by Nancy Schultz. Place: A Short Introduction by Tim Cresswell. The Body in Pieces: The Fragment as a Metaphor of Modernity by Linda Nochlin. The Ellis Island Snowglobe by Erica Rand. Mirror for Witches by Esther Forbes. Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture by Bill Ellis.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

How to even begin?!?!?! My life has been pretty amazing. I've been around a bit and I'm not sure I could ever pick one thing. I lived on a military base in Oklahoma for a minute and a half (quite interesting), I lived in Columbus for a while and worked at an eating disorder clinic and as a bartender in a lesbian bar. I'm proud of how far I've come in life considering the circumstances of my upbringing.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm writing my thesis on images of deviant women on postcards c. 1898-1920, and so I'm pretty consumed with that right now.