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jacqueline

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About Me

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My Interests

Nando's HOT chicken wraps and that chicken curry at Maharajah, activism, eating(a lot and all the time), music, dancing, social justice, feminism, laughing, pro-people stuff, quality conversation, being ridiculous, telling bad jokes, swimming, singing loudly, having finished my 40-page senior thesis, riding in minibus taxis with the most outrageous possible slogans on the back and sides, Cape T-own MowbrayClaremontWynberg, White Castles and chicken rings with hot sauce, cornish pasties and beef jerky, getting ready for South Africa, urban poverty issues, democracy and democratization, public health, figuring out my life path, viola, having illicit thoughts while sitting in class/work, enriching my understanding of the world, missing Africa, generally being cool, maintaining my stable, plotting my next attack

I'd like to meet:

Only vibrant individuals, please. And people who want to read this: http://jacquelinegreene.blogspot.com/

Music:

elvis costello, le tigre, lou reed, dead prez, queen, aesop rock, nina simone, common, blonde redhead, lauryn hill, louis armstrong, erykah badu, parliament, ladytron, coco rosie, brahms, neutral milk hotel, bratmobile, sleater-kinney, the polyphonic spree, mahler, iron and wine

Movies:

the Cremaster Cycle, Pulp Fiction, Heavy Weights

Television:

Law & Order (but only the original)

Books:

Recently finished:
The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by David Shipler (Not impressive, don't read it. I read it to give a little talk to the CWRU Class of '11)

Now Reading:
I Write What I Like, by Steve Biko
Tsotsi, by Athol Fugard
And You Shall Know Our Velocity!, by Dave Eggers
Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire, by Merri Lisa Johnson
The Fate of Africa, by Martin Meredith

Heroes:

Angela Davis