Bailey the dog, Tobi and Taco the cats, Larai the baby, vegan food, activism in general, sleep, books, coffee, writing (more in theory than practice at this point unfortunately) animal liberation, radical queer theory, sex positive feminism, flirting, anarchism, anarcha-feminism, burlesque, broadway musicals, vaudeville, musicals with sex, intersex activism, flappers, the roaring 20s, disability activism, the 1920s-1950s, being a pop culture junkie, shit talking, supporting the Animal Liberation Front, teen angst, feminist sex workers, sex, clothes and fashion (specifically vintage), sexuality, perverts, radical perspectives on mental health, harm reduction, BDSM, radical perspectives on eating disorders, recovery from eating disorders, old school Hollywood glamor, reclaiming and embracing my girlie-girl side, having a love/hate relationship with the South and Atlanta specifically, being a hot femme queer, getting scantily clad with the Dixie Pistols queer burlesque troupe, going to therapy, processing, being queer by choice, suing the office of homeland security, dance, tap dancing
Probably not you and definitely not your crappy band.
hip-hop, punk rock, riot grrrl, crust, grindcore, queercore, stuff with violins, violas and cellos, 90s grunge, cabaret style music, bad pop, old jazz. A few specifics: The Dresden Dolls, Sleater-Kinney, Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, the Roots, Delta Dart, the Gossip, Dystopia, Le Tigre, Conflict, Subhumans, Social Infestation, Tami Hart, Team Dresch, The Cure, The Smiths, Oi Polloi, Harum Scarum, Talib Kweli, The Coup, Jurassic Five, Joan Jett, X-Ray Spex, Submission Hold, Nirvana, Trial (Only 'Are These Our Lives,' that album makes me wanna break stuff), NIN, Rainer Maria, Bodybag Romance, Spitboy, Damad, Portrait, Del Cielo, Scumbrigade, Julie Ruin, Britney Spears (come on, you know that shit is so bad it makes you want to dance and act like a 12 year old teeny bopper) Phobia, 7 Year Bitch, A Tribe Called Quest, L7, Tool, Missy Elliot, The Pixies, (old) Hole, Radiohead, Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Bonfire Madigan, Tattletale, Outkast, Rasputina, Babes in Toyland, Minor Threat, Crass (for nostalgias sake), Dead Kennedys, The Cranes, Mazzy Star, Bauhaus, Tracy and the Plastics, Antonio Vivaldi, Bon Jovi, Outkast, old Metallica, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kelly Clarkson, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Musical Soundtracks!!! (right now the Rent orginal broadway cast score is my favorite), Tilly and the Wall
Lilo and Stitch, Virgin Suicides, Desperate Living (and most anything John Waters does), Girls Town, Legally Blonde, The Little Mermaid, Live! Nude! Girls! Unite!, Best In Show, But I'm a Cheerleader, Fried Green Tomatoes, Crooklyn, Fox and the Hound, Ginger Snaps, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Reality Bites, Mean Girls, It (the one with Clara Bow), Secretary, Breakfast at Tiffany's, High Art, Meet Me in St. Louis, Freeway, Broadway: The American Musical (six part series originally on PBS and now on DVD), Foxfire and All Over Me (for old times sake), West Side Story, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Tarnation, Rent, Roman Holiday, pretty much any musical or movie in black and white or technicolor
Gilmore Girls(seasons 1-3. It was all downhill after that.), Recess, My So-Called Life, Roseanne, Golden Girls, Designing Women, Six Feet Under
I love to read and can't even begin to list a few of my favorites, but I guess I will try...The Bell Jar, Fancy Nancy (the ultimate femme-in-training book), Couldn't Keep It to Myself, the dictionary (seriously, it lives next to my bed), Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation, Free the Animals, The IHOP Papers, Push, the Ramona Quimby series, Stone Butch Blues, Tales from the Clit, Some Girls Do, Lessons from the Intersexed, Vegan Planet (yummy vegan recipes!!), Intersex and Identity, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Quiet Rumors:an Anarcha-Feminist anthology, XXX: A Women's Right to Pornography, Reviving Ophelia, To Kill a Mockingbird, anything by Michelle Tea (including: The Chelsea Whistle, Valencia, Rent Girl, the Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruptions of One Girl In America), Southern fiction, angsty coming-of-age fiction, Free to Be You and Me, Assata: An Autobiography, Depending on the Light, Consequence, anything by Dorothy Allison, Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper, Living My Life, Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman, Bitch magazine, writings by Patrick Califia, writings by Carol Queen, Stories Julian Tells, More Stories Julian Tells, $pread Magazine, No Compromise Magazine, Biteback Magazine, Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance, Bird by Bird (best book I've ever read on being a writer), Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Mad in America, bad fashion magazines, bad celebrity gossip magazines, and so many more...
Emma Goldman, Assata Shakur, Eli Clare, the ladies of the Exotic Dancers Union in San Francisco, the Animal Liberation Front, Lorelai Gilmore (I really want to be her when I grow-up)