Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity

About Me

Hello friends and family!
I have launched a formal fundraising campaign appropriately dubbed: "i support benny, Encouraging Social Change." The full information on this endeavor can be found at my website (isupportbenny.com), so check it out! The site launched on 18 Dec. 2007 and so is undergoing constant updates. Please bookmark it and check it out often!
In a nutshell, my campaign was designed with the intent to help raise funds for me to attend grad school. The fees raised will go toward moving expenses as well as first year fees for the grad school and program of choice as well as supplies. While i have applied for grants and scholarships, this project is intended to assist me throughout my entire time in graduate school. For all or more information about this project or if you would like to help fund this project, please check out my site, and pass it on. Simply click on the campaign insignia either above or below! Money is not the only way to contribute!
my curriculum vitae and personal statements can be found on the website.
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My Interests

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Watch more videos at PETA.org
politics
queers
LGBT rights
human liberties
reading
writing: poetry, scholarly research pieces, fiction
world music
slam poetry
poetry
spoken word
my puppy: Queen Foucault
my kitties: Sarkan & Khaiah
coffee
tea
coffee house culture
postrcuturalism
postcolonialism
postmodern ideology
big words that mean little things
intellectual discourse
body piercings
youth
old people

Research Interests include: the intersectionality of multidimensional (seemingly paradoxical) identities, multiraciality, diasporatic studies, critiques of gay culture/community (especially in transnational perspective), subversive sexualities, subversive queer identities, critical race theory, feminist theory, cultural theory, queer theory, and transgender politics. For further elaboration on any point, please message me.

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet all people from all walks, crawls, rolls and any other forms of mobility of life!

I want to meet people.

Music:

ani difranco
queen
sir elton john
jay brannan
NIN
90s alternative
Louis Armstrong
Nina Simone
rupaul
danny elfman
techno
dance
paul oakenfold
john williams
james horner
metallica
wicked tinkers
bagpipes
flogging molly
madonna
Dropkick Murphys
dj irene
josh groban
cecilia bortelli
pansy division
peaches
scissor sisters
bjork
nina simone
trevor jones
bob marley
green day
ella fitzgerald
billy holiday
saul williams

You know what - "music is the foundation of modern thinking and philosophy; no other medium comes close to enabling ones inner personal thoughts and feelings. It pulls out your deepest emotions and exposes them for ridicule in a pleasant manner. It encourages a sense of belonging when others are able to share similar experiences because of the sound that is derived of music invoking extraordinary pleasures."
- me (Benny)

All in all - I love and appreciate ALL MUSIC

Movies:

TIM BURTON!
Nightmare Before Christmas
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
edward scissorhands
mars attacks
ed wood
pee wee's big adventure
batman 1 and 2
sleepy hollow
beetlejuice
jurassic park
rocky horror picture show
moulin rouge
army of darkness
evil dead 1 and 2 - go Bruce Campbell!!!!!
steel magnolias
labrynth
dark crystal
legend
too wong foo
birdcage
rat race
south park - bigger longer and uncut
peter pan
hook
beautiful thing
kill bill 1 and 2
animatrix
matrix 1 and 2
mulan
lion king
rat race
dark city
love actually
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Shortbus
Pan's Labrynth
and so many many more...

Television:

How It's Made
Mythbusters
Pushing Daisies
Heroes

Books:

Death of a Revolutionary
rain of gold
bible
mein kampf
communist manifesto
satanic bible
koran
harry potter series
the I hate george W. bush reader
the I hate republicans reader
the best democracy money can buy
stupid white men
fastfood nation
Any and all Queer Theory books
Karl Marx
Judith Butler
John DeMelio
Annamarie Jagoose
Che Guevera
Riki Wilchins
Donald Webster Cory (pseudonym)
Leslie Feinberg
Michel Foucault
Eve Kofsky Sedgewick
cynthia enloe
bell hooks
audre Lorde
gloria anzaldua
cherrie moraga
Edward Said
Gaytri Spivak
Chandra Mohanty
and so many more!

Heroes:

My Baby Brother Nathaniel Jonathan Matthew LeMaster

The Oppressed
Ernesto "Che" Guevera
Ella Jo Baker
Bayard Rustin
My Mother
Any one who has made a stand in the name of social injustices
Ground Shakers
Those who have admitted their ignorance and who have willfully changed their mentalities accordingly so as too ensure a better, more conscious and well-rounded and affirmative space for all persons, irregardless of difference

My Blog

real quick

So, this weekend is Long Beach Pride! Happy Pride to everyone!I will be volunteering as a supervisor as per usual at the Latin stage area. It is always fun and exciting. However, I am worried about th...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Sat, 17 May 2008 01:50:00 PST

California, 2nd state to recognize gay marriage!

Lesbian and Gay Couples Win Freedom to Marry in California (5/15/2008)California Supreme Court Issues Historic RulingFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; [email protected] FRANCISCO - The Ca...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Fri, 16 May 2008 04:07:00 PST

Post-Relay

Okay, this will have to be quick as bedtime is upon me (I work at 6am).I finished relay today, and it was a blast as usual! My legs are aching, my feet sore, and my emotions revitalized!I managed to w...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Sun, 04 May 2008 10:10:00 PST

Need of Song Suggestions

Howdy.I am comprising a list of inspirational music that spans many genres. Give me suggestions. And I will give you... peace of mind. Or a piece of MY mind?Either way, you will feel fulfilled. And th...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:37:00 PST

Need YOUR help!

Friends, Aggressive Readers, Passive Lovers, and all others:Do you know what you have?! Friends, and a lot of them! Please help me out to raise as many funds as possible in three days for the Long Bea...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:00:00 PST

medium cappuccino, 1 pump mocha, nonfat, on the wetside

Okay, if you don't work in a coffee shop or have never worked in a coffee shop for that matter and are simply a coffee consumer, then you are not the expert. Leave that to the nut job baristas! When y...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:54:00 PST

a good one

Benny grabs the two paper bags full of random groceries from the counter. His progressively whiting hair shows his true age."Thank you very much and have a grand day," Benny offers.The teller responds...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:06:00 PST

the delusion of thinness

Alright I need to put two main points out there first and foremost.(1) I am not thin-phobic. In fact, I am quite excited about the many states in which humans can be. Also, I have a severe (almost unh...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:57:00 PST

The 9 to 5. Rather, the 5 to 2...

Alrighty then. I happened upon a chance job back in January and I have stuck to it since. I like it very much and the atmosphere is relatively interesting.You may have seen out product in your local g...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:01:00 PST

recovery

Queen seems much more chipper today. She can walk much better and she is jumping around this morning. I was worried about her potty time as she refused to poop yesterday between 5am and 8:30pm! It see...
Posted by Queering HUSSEIN Heteronormativity on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:53:00 PST