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Gemma

grrl boi wonder

About Me

What would you like to know exactly?

My Interests

I 've taking up the clarinet again and planning on learning the soprano sax. Thinking about kayaking. I am an ex-performing of YGLAM Performing Arts Project. Reading. Music. Travelling. Photography. Convesrations over a fresh brew of tea. Drag kings. Body modification/adornment (tattoos, piercings, hair dying). 'Dykes To Watch Out For' comics. Writing letters to friends and family from all over the world. Youth work and involvement within the GLBTIQ community.

I'd like to meet:

You!

Music:

Ani DiFranco / Bitch&Animal / FRUIT / Rosie / Emma Wall / Ember Swift / Missy Higgins / Laura Pausini / Lamb / Enigma / Mel Watson / Tegan & Sara / Beth Orton / Alanis Morissette / Primary / Tracy Chapman / Sophie O'Connor / Sneaky Sound System

Movies:

Schindler's List, Lost&Delirious, Boys Dont Cry, Girl Interupted, The Green Mile, Mysterious Skin, The Aggressives, Transamerica, Women In Love, A Beautiful Mind, The Color Purple, Farinelli, Truman Capote, Babel, Russian Dolls, Shortbus, Howl's Moving Castle, Loving Annabell, Imagine Me and You, Itty Bitty Titty Committee, Tipping The Velvet, Fingersmith, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Stick It, She's The Man

Television:

House / Global Village (SBS) / Dr. Phil / NCIS

Books:

Currently reading: "Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg / Last Read: "Drag King Dreams" by Leslie Feinberg / "Once Upon a Dyke - New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians" / "When Rabbit Howls: A First-Person Account of Multiple Personality, Memory, and Recovery" by The Troops for Truddi Chase" / Life of Pi" by Yann Martel / "Transgenders and intersexuals: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know But Couldn't Think of the Question" by Lois May / "Self" by Yann Martel / "Hanbook of Counselling" 2nd. ed. by Stephen Palmer and Gladeana McMahon / "Rock N Roll Babes from Outer Space" by Linda Jaivin Previous good reads: Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan / Hear me out: True stories of Teens Educating And Confronting Homophobia / My Lesbian Husband/ Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg / The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff / Dykes To Watch Out For series / Weetzie Bat books by Francesca Lia Block / A Boy Called It David Peltzer / SLIT magazine / 365 pep talks from Buddha / Dibs: In Seach of Self by Virginia M. Axline / "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and it's all Small Stuff" by Richard Carlson / Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture by Emily Jenkins / Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel / Tales from the City by Armistead Maupin / String of Pearls: Stories about cross-dressing / 'The Chrysalids' John Wyndham / 'The Incerdible Alison Bechdel: Confessions, comix, and miscellaneous Dykes to Watch Out For'

Heroes:

The women and men that pathed the way for the younger GLBTIQ generation of today.

My Blog

RIP Piccolo

At 11:15am last Thursday 8th March our little man was put to sleep. I know he was very old and sick but I will never forget the look in his eyes when he was restrained and that blackish-blue gunk was...
Posted by Gemma on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:12:00 PST

Trip to Sydney in Oct 05...

Blue Mountains stiched from four separate images Blue sky and clouds somewhere between Sydney and Melbourne (Oct 05) While visiting the Blue Mountains we took a ride (Oct 05) Somewhere between her...
Posted by Gemma on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:14:00 PST

Rainbow Award

I've been nominated for a Rainbow Award under 'Young Acheiver'! Plus I will be on Joy Melbourne 94.9FM at 11pm tomorrow night for an interview!...
Posted by Gemma on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:15:00 PST

First post...

I've been on here all afternoon and I think I am finally updated, added and set. Did you also know I have my own web-site (which needs updating) and livejournal (which I usually keep up to d...
Posted by Gemma on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:47:00 PST