I'd like to meet:
She was my best friend in 10th grade.
Now she's on her way to stardom!
Music:
Indigo Girls, Loreena McKennitt, Márta Sebestyén, Muzsikás, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Janis Ian, Jean Ritchie, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joni Mitchell, Sixpence None the Richer, Over the Rhine, Innocence Mission
Movies:
Desert Hearts, The Hours, Aimee and Jaguar, Brother Sun Sister Moon, The Color Purple, Casablanca, Hairspray, Cabaret ...and many more I can't think of right now
Television:
PBS, Mary Tyler Moore, Law & Order, King of the Hill, Daria, SNL, Dr. Keith Ablow, classic sitcoms, cartoons.NPR, Fresh Air, All Things Considered, This American Life, Prairie Home Companion, Wait, Wait! Don't Tell Me
Books:
Charlotte Bronte, Alice Walker, Barbara Kingsolver, Sarah Vowell, Sandra Cisneros, Sarah Waters, Isabel Miller.And I'm a big sucker for lesbian romance novels...
Heroes:
Joy, My aunt Eszter, Dr. Bea Holz, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlotte Bronte, Susan B. Anthony, Jane Addams. All the feminist and lesbian leaders who paved the way for women today.