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comrade demi

yrtrophywife

About Me

probably a bad investment.

My Interests

"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each us." - Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

border-crossing, breaking boundaries, the cynical, civil disobedience, gender queer, transgressing gender roles, cats, feminism, public libraries, YA BASTA!, queer theory,labor unions, conspiracy theories, film stills, plate tectonics,radical thoughts/individuals/beliefs, Zapatistas:ELZN, riot grrl, anti-globalization, ovaries, socialism, scholarly journals, chemical reactions, dissent, dancing, projected light, songs like sobbing, bicycles, the subversive

I'd like to meet:

(again)

"In the midst of a winter, I realized that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus.

Music:

twee, indie pop, lo-fi, bubblegum pop, cuddlecore, math rock, riot grrl, soul

Movies:

Hable con ella, Happy endings, Todo sombre mi madre, Mala Educación, Little shop of horrors, Indiana Jones, I Shot Andy Warhol, The little mermaid, Me and you and everyone we know, Sunset Boulevard, Even cowgirls get the blues, Muriel's wedding, Clockwatchers, Muholland drive, Aimee & jaguar, Frida, Pulp Fiction, Breathless, Sabrina, But I'm a cheerleader (soundtrack !!), Hairspray, Volver, INLAND EMPIRE, girl on a bridge, Henry & June, Wet hot american summer, Selena, Walkout, Mommie Dearest, What ever happened to Baby Jane?, Dick, Freeway, Freeway 2 : Confessions of a Trickbaby, grey gardens

Television:

The wonder years, Weeds, Golden girls, Strangers with candy, Kids in the hall,, The X-files, Are you afraid of the dark?, Daria, Doug, The adventures of Pete & Pete, Xena: warrior princess, Beyond belief: fact or fiction?

Books:

house on mango street, the bell jar, crossing the water, dreaming in cuban, chicana falsa, loose women, the stranger, tender buttons, waiting for gertrude, the wall, the bluest eye, this bridge called my back, woman hollering creek, Borderlands: La Frontera, the new Metiza, little birds, under a glass bell, erotica, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, No One Belongs Here More Than You, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, Sister Outsider

current fasincation(s):

-Dames on Frames

-general science books

-Invincible summer- zines by Nicole J. Georges

Heroes:

Audre Lorde, Sandra Cisneros, Patricia Hill Collins, Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Miranda July, Ana Mendieta,Carolee Schneenmann, Cindy Sherman, Nikki Giovanni, Comandanta Ramona, Dolores Huerta