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Lydia

I am here for Dating, Friends and Networking

About Me

i love people. like whoa but im really shy if i dont know people and i run away/hide. i like laughing. i like driving and singing at the top of my lungs. i own too many books. i want to commit my life to teaching/doing academic research and doing antiprison activism. i believe that the south is a catalyst for radical resistance in the u.s., i secretly (or not so secretly) love school. my justice work is grounded in unitarian univesalism. i am in love with the bay area but i am deeply committed to the midwest. i believe in having committed relationships with my friends. my favorite words are praxis and ubiquitous. my fundamental truth is that i am cute and interesting. i am addicted to love.

My Interests

anti-racism/anti-oppression, prison abolition, radical pedagogy, education reform, dismantling the gender binary, radical queers (NOT the hrc), reading everything, the sf state strike, anti-capitalism, nonmonog(amy), dance parties, developing resources (i'm a nerd), organizing conferences, crushes, making out, sex, theater, the midwest, soy chai lattes, swing sets, unitarian universalism, baking, being goofy, crayons, red wine, getting letters, people visiting me, going to the movies, drinking LOTS of coffee, riding my bike, long phone calls, road trips, iowa, text messaging, pitchers, my doggies

I'd like to meet:

people who are excited about the possibilities of justice in the world. people to have book groups with. people who want to learn spanish with me. people who want to struggle together. people who laugh at themselves.

Music:

ani, liz phair, doria roberts, alix olsen, garbage, poe, rilo kiley, modest mouse, the postal service, death cab for cutie, elliot smith, le tigre, bikini kill, propagandhi, less than jake, bad religion, dead prez, the coup, blackalicious, ms.dynamite, old madona, old michael jackson, david bowie, the cure, music to crybaby to

Movies:

requiem for a dream, empire records, back to the future trilogy, run lola run, amelie, but i'm a cheerleader, the trip, romeo and juliet, the terminator movies, city of lost children, casablanca, mean girls, bamboozled, rabbit proof fence, before sunrise, royal tenenbaums, say anything

Television:

mostly problematic shows that can be found on dvd, AND my so-called life

Books:

catcher in the rye, the world according to garp, caucasia, song of solomon, the street, dogeaters, the god of small things, no telephone to heaven, sister/outsider, audre lorde's poetry, assata, the autobiography of malcolm x, loving in the war years, this bridge, cunt, all bell hooks-especially on education, pedagogy of the oppressed, living my life I& II, stone butch blues, soulwork, harry potter, nerdy discourse-y radical ethnographies, the color of violence

Heroes:

TEROS (teacher+heros) -ella bake, the activists of the sf state strike, folks striving and working for justice everywhere, my mom, my friends, most people i know