Talking hella shit. Bikes. Cleaning Gilman. Abstentionism as the basis of (non) interaction with the reigning political system. Epistemology. Cryptozoology. Non-binary gender and ungendered language. Vinyl Records. Reductionism. Cassette Tapes. Dancing. Eating sunflower seeds. Zines. Letters. Hyphy dancin'. DIY. Hips. Fat Girls. Curvy Girls. Titties. Hella Food. Dumpster-Diving. Drinking out of mason jars. Marxist Economics. Wimmin's Studies. Queer Theory. Maintaining a shit-ton of self-esteem and respect. School. Reading. Making mixtapes. Toki Pona. Argumentation/Debate. Communications Theory. Going to shows. Booking shows. Cooking. Vegans. High-fives. Stage-dives. Gardening. Abortion as birthcontrol. Sitting on porches at dusk. Masturbation. Oakland. Linguistics. 924 Gilman St. Children. Deconstruction. Primitivism. Vintage Sewing Patterns. Policy Debate. Going back to Ireland. Questioning the validity of Western rationalism. Being a whole hell of a lot smarter than I look. Solipsism as the basis of understanding and epistemology, but not absolute edict. Pro-abortion. DIY Gynecology. The Jane Collective. Singing Irish/IRA folk songs. MENSA. Libraries and used/rare book stores. Food Not Bombs. Being 'that one bitch...'; never 'so-and-so's girlfriend.' Record Labels. Chest hair on dudes and hairy armpits on the laydees. Record shops. Prevention of further imperialism and exploitation of the "global south." Coffee. Post-Leftist theory. Violence as a tool to overthrow power structures and hierarchy. Arms caches. Annie Sprinkle. Bandbreakfast. Sexworkers. Storing everything in mason jars. Dirt. Hugs. Clean punk houses. Hating mold, coconuts and hypodermic needles. Plotting the death of the hipster menace. Midwifery. Absurdism. Being hated by dudes. Utilitarianism that occasionally strays into nihilism. Bands playing in my living room. Taking up lots of space. Physically assaulting rapists and misogynists.
Let's put it this way, I'm never 'just passing time,' and I loathe people that do.
I've already met him, his name is George.
I took riot grrl way too seriously, but I still like peacepunk a lot, too.
1905. 45 Grave. ABBA! Agent Orange. Amebix. ANTISCHISM. Appalachian Terror Unit. Au Pairs. Avengers. Axiom. Ballast. The Bayonettes. Bikini Kill. Billy Bragg. Blind Melon. The Boys. Bratmobile. Bread & Water. CH3. Christian Reich. Chumbawamba. Cocteau Twins. Condenada. Consume. Contra La Contra. Contravene. Crass. Culture. The Dangerloves. Dead Moon. Defile. Depeche Mode. The Descendents. Detestation. DI. Dirt. Emmylou Harris. The Eyes. Exploding Hearts. Faggot. The Fastbacks. Fatal Microbes (Honey Bane's solo work as well.) The Fuckboyz. Ganglion. Gene Loves Jezebel. The Gits. Goxxip. Harlequin. Heavens To Betsy. Huggy Bear. Jawbreaker. Jesus & Mary Chain. Joanna Newsom. Josie Cotton. Julie Ruin. Kingdom. La Fraction. Liz Phair. Marianne Faithful. Modernettes. The Mountain Goats. The Muffs. Naked Aggression. Nausea. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. Neil Young. Neon Christ. Nico. The Nuns. Oi Polloi. One Reason. Pansy Division. Penetration. Pleasure Seekers. Poison Girls. Poison Idea. Potential Threat. Raincoats. Raped. Resist & Exist. Reversal Of Man. RICE. Sado-Nation. Sisters Of Mercy. The Slits. Soft Cell. Strawberry Switchblade. Submission Hold. Surrender. Suzi Quatro. Thulsa Doom. Tinkture. Toxic Waste. Vegan Reich. VKTMS. X. XRay SpeX. Zero Boys. Angry girl music. Irish Rebel Music. Folk-punk. Old gothy stuff. Chamber folk. Heavy shit. Twee pop.
All of the bands that play in my living room.
Anything by Hiyao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli.
No.
People make fun of me for the sheer number of books in my possession.
The SCUM Manifesto. bell hooks. Marx. Sylvia Plath. Virginia Woolf. Anne Sexton. Feral Faun. Political or economic theorists. Zines, particularly those by Arwen Curry, The Absolute Zippo! punks, riot grrls and genderfuckfaggots. Text books. Dictionaries. Venomous Butterfly zines. Elisabeth Gurley Flynn. William Borroughs. Richard Hell. William Butler Yeats. James Joyce. Robert A Heinlein. Dostoevsky. ee cummings. "A Marxist Critique of Feminist Theory." Mercedes Lackey. Jean Genet. Sartre. Simone de Beauvior. Our Bodies Ourselves. Machiavelli. Fischer's Narrative Paradigm. Maximum Rock N' Roll. Slug & Lettuce. Radical Feminists. Nabokov. Dworkin. Dadaists. Padraig Pearse. James Connolly. Ovid. Yukio Mishima. The Bitch Manifesto. Lyric sheets/inserts. Soy Not Oi! cookbook. BF Skinner. Thoreau. Beckett. Clifford Odet's "Waiting For Lefty." Derrida.
I really like Slavoj Zizek.
My dad. Any and all girls in DIY punk bands. Girls who fight back when they are raped, groped, ignored or abused and never forgive or forget. People willing to fully denounce rapists and misogynists, no matter their 'status' in the scene. Annie Sprinkle. 924 Gilman. Vi Subversa. Kira Roessler. The Last Rocker. Padriag Pearse. Jennifer Miro. Kathleen Hannah. Geza X. Andrea Dworkin. Honey Bane. Suzi Quatro. Lyz from Antischism. Nico. Janis Joplin. Marianne Faithful. Nyna Crawford. MIA ZAPATA. Penelope Houston. Pauline Murray. Tim Yohannon (RIP). Eve Libertine. Kathi Wilcox. Tobi Vail. The Jane Collective. Patti Smith.