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renee.

lookin4therain

About Me

I AM: an activist to the core. a nerd. a road cyclist. passionate. queer.I LOVE: politics. alternative economics. discursive learning. reading. counter cultures. gender queers. holistic thinking. liberation movements. kayaking. philosophy. granola.I BELIEVE IN: the power of empathy. the world’s youth. social and economic justice.


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My Interests

people, words (in all forms), questions, music, vegetarians/ vegans, Eco-feminism, queer theory, anthropology, activism, photos.

I'd like to meet:

Open minds young and old. Fellow aspiring activists. .. tofutti4you

Music:

indie, eltronica/ dance, and folk. some of my favorites: Ani DiFranco, Azure Ray, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Chicks on Speed, Dar Williams, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliot Smith, Erase Ereta, James Figurine, Indigo Girls, John lennon, Le Tigre, Melissa Ferrick, Modest Mouse, Paul VanDyk, Peaches, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Regina Spektor, Rilo Kiley, Rufus Wainwright, Scissor Sisters, Tahiti 80, Tegan and Sara, The faint, tilly and the wall, tori amos, tracy and the plastics

Movies:

Waking Life. A Clockwork Orange. My Fair Lady. High Society. The Weather Underground. High Art. Motorcycle Diaries. The Science of Sleep.

Television:

Turn off your TV

Books:

Philosophy, Existential literature and essays, Critical Theory, the work of Michel Foucault, and Gender/Queer theory. Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris, Audre Lord, Tobias Wolf, or Inga Muscio.currently amazed by: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities, John D'Emilio

Heroes:

working class people everywhere.“I have no formal university education but I have the best degree from the University of Life.” -Gloria Lopez, Nicaraguan Labor and Gender Activist

My Blog

Working Women

Wow, I really have not blogged in a long time.  I am now going to use this blog as a venue to create awareness about some of my salient issues: Womens, LGBTQ, Labor, and Environmental issues.&nbs...
Posted by renee. on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:50:00 PST

Confessions

Confessions [] I am bisexual [X] I am homosexual [] I collect comic books. [X] I shut others out when I'm sad [] I open up to others easily [] I am keeping a secret from the world [X] I w...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:06:00 PST

The definition of life

  I have been meaning to tell all of you this for quite sometime [yes, I am talking to you even if you stumbled upon this by accident.]:  Please, I beg of you, do not take yoursel...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

This is the last time that you cut my hair.

Today as I repeatedly brushed the hair away from my eyes I decided that I was in need of a hair cut. Rather than going to a salon I cut my own hair (as I almost always did before) and realized that I...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

from the lining of my stomach to the lip of my mouth.

So today I was talking abuot schools with my mom and I made a comment about the culture in Chicago and she went on a rampage about how she isn't sending me to a school so it can "fulfill my sexual age...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

COLLEGE

uhh, I can not make my fanancial aid work. FAFSA says they didn't get the paperwork I filed. I have to have all of my aid shit figured out by april 1 and it really isn't working. I am going to go t...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

with honor and Obama, sweet

Last night I went to the Ignite the Will, With Honor, Sretch Armstrong, H2O show last night, and that was sweet! (I will post pictures later) Then this morning I woke up and called Obama's office and ...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

driving, driving, driving

I still have a driver's licence. It is strange how much a suit and correct grammer can do for you in traffic court. The judge gave me supervision. Now I am going to sit on my butt until I have to wor...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I have no right.

i've lost my driver's licence. i've lost my driver's licence. i've lost my driver's licence. i've lost my driver's licence. i've lost my driver's licence. i've lost my driver's licence. i've lost my d...
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

show pictures

uhh, just a link for now. http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=lookin4therain I will post them on here in a blog sometime tonight after I see Closer, or tomorrow.
Posted by renee. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST