FEMINISM! What? Yeah.

paeacefuleyes replied to your post: OK.

Just cheese?

Let me clarify: a little fancy cheese from my favorite cheese shop in Austin once in a while, in addition to the food I need for survival. 

paeacefuleyes replied to your post: When Lorelai Gilmore’s “salad” consisting of bagged spinach with ranch poured on top looks good, it may be a sign you need to eat more vegetables.

You could come eat salads here. And other things.

I WISH. I’D BE THERE SO FAST YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW.

paeacefuleyes replied to your post: If you want to draw something with me…

i am going to find you!

DO IT DO IT DO IT

paeacefuleyes replied to your post: I feel as if you need to be here because I have lots of Doctor Who questions. And it is scary. And we could drink beer.

Weeping angels.

Oh my god! Yes! Blink is such a frightening episode!

paeacefuleyes replied to your post: It seems some people are not fans of my blog of late.

I will always love you. AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII, will always love YOUUUUUUUUUUOOOOUUUUUUUU

paeacefuleyes replied to your post: To pizza? Or not to pizza? That is the question.

PIZZA

teaandbiscuitsfeminism replied to your post: To pizza? Or not to pizza? That is the question.

When is that ever a valid question? Pizza. Always Pizza.

supply-demand-magic replied to your post: To pizza? Or not to pizza? That is the question.

PIZZA .ALWAYS PIZZA.

productsofpoverty:

• Post the rules.
• Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then make 11 new ones.
• Tag 11 people and link them to your post.
• Let them know you’ve tagged them.

I was tagged by productsofpoverty!

Answer these:

1. What is the meaning of your username? That feminism. It’s pretty cool.
2. What is your birth order (i.e., only child? oldest? youngest? middle?)? Biological birth order, oldest. Blended birth order, middle. I’m a question mark wrapped in an enigma. 
3. What are the top three things you want to do before you die? I should probably have an answer to this question. Hm. I’d like to have a grown-up, egalitarian, healthy relationship with a person (even if it’s just for a while). I’d like to become more zen about dying before it actually happens to me. And… hm. I’m going to say, go to the fjords? Kayak them and then hike them. Holler!
4. What are your plans for this summer? Working! And, hopefully, getting into a political campaign school. Also weddings. 
5. Where do you see yourself five years from now? I have absolutely no idea. Hopefully alive, maybe in a PhD program? I just hope that whatever I’m doing, it makes me happy.
6. How do you cope with stress? Horribly. 
7. What has been one high point of your week? BKC Tuesdays with my friends and tiny horse cookies!
8. Where is your favorite place to be? Anywhere with people I love. 
9. Who inspires you the most? I don’t know, I don’t have just one person that I look to necessarily. There are so many people who are good at so many things. Some of my friends inspire me because of their faith. Some professors inspire me to do what I believe and push to make the world a better place, like they do. Many of the women in my life inspire me to be a strong, independent person who thinks for herself. And there are many feminist thinkers (famous and tumblrs) who inspire me to expand my understanding of what being a feminist means every day. 
10. What is one thing that you are extremely passionate about? Chocolate. Oh, and feminism. 
11. If you could give anyone one piece of advice, what would you say? “Be who you are, and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” This was my mantra way before it came close to being my reality. But I would add this: “…UNLESS you are racist, sexist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, cissexist, heteronormative, classist, and/or fatphobic, because in that case, the people who mind are right and the people who don’t mind are probably douchebags, too.” 

Without the continued investment of my committee, this would never have come to pass. Firstly, I would like to thank them: my chair, Dr. Carlos Decena, who continued to push me to expand my vision of what my work could do; Dr. Anna Sampaio, who encouraged me to trust my academic voice and accept the political nature of my focus; and Dr. Radhika Balakrishnan, whose continued guidance through her own example of combining academic work with activism has shaped me as a gender scholar. The support of my committee was an invaluable resource during the writing of this thesis.

I would also like to thank Dr. Marisa Fuentes and Dr. Julie Rajan for encouraging me to explore issues of immigration, narrative, and human rights in their courses. The work that came out of their instruction and teaching helped put issues of gender and social justice into better focus and made my work stronger and more interesting for me as a researcher.

Thanks must also go to the Degens, who opened their home to me in the beginning stages of my research. To my parents: Cheryl, Christopher, and Pamela for always being open to my new theories of “what this project is really about.” To my informal and invaluable editor Alexander, no amount of cupcakes could ever repay my scholarly debt to your investment in my work. And finally, to the sounding boards who believed in my work and my ability to produce this thesis even in the moments when I could not: Laura, Catherine, Marianne, Alyssa, Jeff, Jen, Aimee, Rachel, and Kaitlyn.

I LOVE when conversations include contraceptive models, discussions of how pelvic bones move during pregnancy and birth, gender politics, and sex positivity.

Ahhhhh why can’t life be like this?

My friend just joined tumblr! He is engaged (or… whatever the feminist pagan ritual  non-wedding version of that is) to the awesome [paeacefuleyes] and he is SO feminist and fierce and queer and all things awesome (also brilliant). So far he’s posted two sentences, but I feel confident that much more awesome stuff will follow.

FOLLOW HIM.