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Ashli

I think I'll get my own avocado tree...

About Me

I'm a PhD student in English at LSU...other than that? I'm a girly liberal feminist with all the assorted trappings and neuroses. I read several lefty and celeb gossip blogs religiously, delighting in the contradiction, and listen to too much NPR, annoying those around me by relating at least one story every day. I'm passionate about way too many things and argue about them loudly, particularly after a few vodka cranberries. Most things pink make me happy, particularly my hot pink bathroom with its multiple Bettie Page photographs. Random facts, but I think it creates a pretty accurate picture of me.

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My Interests

Academically? Popular culture and the feminist analysis of it...
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I'd like to meet:

I want to share pancakes at midnight with Amy and David Sedaris and brunch with Tim Gunn while he reads me the Sunday New York Times. I also have a geek-girl crush on Reza Aslan, but my love/lust for him extends beyond the desire to share breakfast.

Music:

Liz Phair (the real one, not the radio-friendly pop tart who took over her body sometime around the turn of the century), Sleater-Kinney (rip), Beth Orton, Ivy, Tanya Donnelly (with or without the Breeders or Belly), Tegan and Sara, PJ Harvey, Neko Case, Jean Grae, and Dolly Parton.

Movies:

Gone with the Wind, Henry and June, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Hours, Virgin Suicides, House of Yes, and quirky documentaries about any fringe of society...I also have a thing for teen girl movies like Bring It On, Ten Things I Hate About You, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and Sugar and Spice. Yes, I am very ashamed of myself.

Television:

Buffy, Gilmore Girls, Daily Show, Strangers with Candy, Veronica Mars, Sex and the City, the OC, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model (and now the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency),the Simpsons, Futurama, the L Word, the Office, and just about anything on the Food Network (it's food porn!).

Books:

It would take too long to list specific books, so here's a (somewhat) random sampling of authors...Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Mary Gaitskill, Sarah Vowell, Maggie Estep, Donna Tartt, Naomi Wolf, David Sedaris, and Jeffrey Eugenides (if you haven't read Middlesex yet, consider this notice of your assignment from me. It's one of the best books I've read in years).

Heroes:

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My Blog

Read this

I don't have time to comment on this adequately, but it's an amazing call to action for those of us suffering from Bush-fatigue."The Dog Ate Our Email" from Shakespeare's Sister/Shakesville...
Posted by Ashli on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:09:00 PST

The insane color quiz that knows everything about you

I don't understand how this works, but in my very unofficial sampling of four people, it figures out all your problems. Take it, and leave me a comment letting me know if it worked for you....
Posted by Ashli on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:51:00 PST

Saying yes to one thing means saying yes to everything?

More objectification of women, yay!!! According to a South Australian court, if you say yes to oral sex, that also means that you are consenting to intercourse."In a 2-1 decision, the Court of Crimin...
Posted by Ashli on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 09:33:00 PST

Blog for Choice (a day late)

Yesterday marked the thirty-fourth anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Abortion has been "available" for my entire life so far, but will it be available for the rest of it? Many women in this country live in ...
Posted by Ashli on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:02:00 PST

So Boca burgers make you gay and give you a small penis?

Apparently, soy products are to blame for homosexuality, less-than-well-endowed men, early on-set of menstruation, and the general decline of masculinity. So I guess I can blame my own girliness on t...
Posted by Ashli on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:32:00 PST

Something scary for Halloween...

Via Feministing:"An appellate court said Maryland's rape law is clear -- no doesn't mean no when it follows a yes and intercourse has begun."A three-judge panel of the Court of Special Appeals Monday ...
Posted by Ashli on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:59:00 PST

Yay!!! A new way to control women's bodies!

Read the story hereA Missouri judge has ordered a woman to not have any more children while she's on probation. Mandy Nelson, a mother of three who was convicted on forgery charges, was shocked by th...
Posted by Ashli on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:38:00 PST

Rest in Peace, Ann Richards

Ann Richards died Wednesday night after battling cancer of the esophagus for the last six months. For those of you unfamiliar with this fabulous Southern woman, she was the governor of Texas until Du...
Posted by Ashli on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:43:00 PST

Just when I thought my Joss crush had reached its pinnacle...

He had to go and do something feministsexy like this:..>He based his talk (accepting an award as an Equality Now "Men on the Front Lines" Honoree) around the question he always gets in interviews--why...
Posted by Ashli on Sun, 23 Jul 2006 12:03:00 PST

Discussing "Fucking and Feminism" by Rachel Kramer Bussel

So I just read this article, and I'm wondering what others think of it. It falls under the general category of third-wave feminist believing that our second-wave mothers are judging us for our sexua...
Posted by Ashli on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:04:00 PST