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helen

Lick My Legs, I'm On Fire

About Me


I created my own profile using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM and you should too!I'm Helen. I'm currently doing an MA in Gender, Sexuality & Culture at the University of Manchester.I also play drums in the best band ever - The Bobbed Haired Bandits.I'm involved in the Female Trouble DIY collective and Manchester Feminist Book Group

My Interests

baking cakes & eating cakes, reading books, learning, feminism, dresses, drumming, activism, cats

I'd like to meet:

People who want to come to my book group

Music:

Ani DiFranco, Anti-Flag, The Arcade Fire, At The Drive-In, Be Your Own PET, Belle & Sebastian, Bikini Kill, Blondie, Bob Dylan, The Bobbed-Haired Bandits, Bratmobile, Cat Power, The Clash, The Cure, Deftones, The Distillers, The Donnas, Dresden Dolls, Elastica, Far, Flamingo 50, Gang of Four, The Get-Up Kids, Gomez, Gossip, Heavens to Betsy, Hole, Hooker, Idlewild, Jeff Buckley, Joan Jett, Joanna Newsom, Johnny Cash, Kenickie, L7, Le Tigre, The Long Blondes, Maximo Park, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Nirvana, No Doubt, The Organ, Pipettes, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Placebo, Priscillas, QOTSA, Regina Spektor, Radiohead, RATM, The Ramones, Rival Schools, Saves the Day, Sleater-Kinney, The Slits, Smashing Pumpkins, The Specials, Sublime, System of a Down, T-Rex, Thrice, Tilly & the Wall, The Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zombina & the Skeletones & lots more

Movies:

The Aristocats, Bad Education, Goodbye Lenin!, Europa Europa!, The Edukators, The Virgin Suicides, Paperclips, Pedro Almodovar films

Books:

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar, Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Herland & The Yellow Wallpaper, J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye, Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale, Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex, Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philantropists, Dicker & Piepmeier - Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century