Delia

I'd like to meet:

In no particular order...

Old friends and schoolmates
Lovers of life
Readers and book lovers
Critical thinkers
People with strong characters who stand up for what they believe in, and speak out against wrongs
Sex workers
Visual/performance artists of quality who are committed to their work and are willing to sacrifice for it (as opposed to those attracted to a glamorously fictional lifestyle)
Feminists (sex-positive, especially)
More people of color who can be "alternative" without denying their ethnicity
Socialists and other advocates against exploitative systems
Fighters of racism, sexism, homophobia and classism
Eccentrics and crazy cat people
Queer people and other subversives
People who ask questions and take nothing for granted

Music:

Mesh, Skunk Anansie, Skin, Machines of Loving Grace, Doubting Thomas, Covenant, The Damned, Depeche Mode, Tricky, Lords of Acid, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Rosetta Stone, Battery, Radio Eris, Apogee...just to name a few

Movies:

Strange Days, Velvet Goldmine, Equilibrium, Hackers, Galaxy Quest, Bring It On, Chasing Amy, Dead Man on Campus, B.Monkey, 13 Conversations About One Thing, Playing Mona Lisa, The Secret of NIMH, Dancing At The Blue Iguana, The Women, The Chronicles of Riddick, Confidence, Breakin' All The Rules, Something New, Being Julia, Mrs. Harris, Red Eye, The Upside of Anger, The New World, Tipping The Velvet, Inside Man, The Prestige

Television:

Red Dwarf, Cold Case, Hyperdrive, Prime Suspect, Firefly, Monk (the Sharona years), Project Runway, Crossing Jordan, MST3K, Queer As Folk, ANTM, Law and Order: SVU, Scrubs, Fastlane, Grounded For Life, Roseanne, La Femme Nikita, Will and Grace, Like Family, BTVS, Angel, Grey's Anatomy, The King of Queens, Star Trek: TNG, Sliders, X-Files (not the more farfetched alien conspiracy material, though!), Girlfriends, The Girls Next Door, Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School (my guilty pleasure!), Spaced, Black Books, Peep Show, (new) Doctor Who, Life On Mars, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

Books:

I have a lot of favorite books, so instead here are some of my most looked-to authors: Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, Nancy Kress, Colin Greenland, Patricia Wentworth, Tanith Lee, Antonia White, Barbara Hambly, Pat Cadigan, Dave McKean, Connie Willis, Colette, Barbara Pym, Muriel Spark, Carol Lay, Emily Devenport, Caroline Stevermer, Diana Wynne Jones, Lillian Hellman, A.C. Swinburne, Dorothy Parker, Muriel Spark

Heroes:

Shonda Rhimes, Roseanne Barr, Joss Whedon, Angela Davis, Angela Bassett, Norma Shearer, Gina Aiesi, suffragettes, civil rights activists, Octavia Butler, Josephine Baker, Colette, Helen Mirren, Denzel Washington, Bill Hicks