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| User: | dis_senter (8767612) Mermaid's Garden
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| Name: | Dissenter | |||||||
| Website: | Spinning Spinsters | |||||||
| Location: | Australia | |||||||
| Bio: | I'm a radical feminist in my 20s, a writer, and a thinker. My life consists mostly of reading literature, playing the clarinet, writing, and spending time with my cat. I like to go bushwalking, and I try to garden, though I am not terribly successful at it. "I am speaking the truth, and the truth is savage and dangerous" -Nawal El Sadaawi "I'm not a 'good girl' - I'm a terrible old maid" -"How We Went to the Wedding", Against the Odds, L.M. Montgomery. "Maeve told me a woman was either beautiful or ugly, but I have learned to be something else altogether. No doubt it is fearsome in its strangeness, though, for a commonwoman in her pumpkin house peers out at me with a kind of dread, and her man waves his hoe at me and makes the warding sign to keep off evil. When I was a princess, they bowed and smiled to see me go by, dazzled by my beauty, relieved to see a man riding with me: my keeper. Now, a pedlar glares at me and gives me a wide berth in his wagon. He does not know what to make of a woman alone riding the Worldroad. I am neither commonwoman nor princess, but some strange new hybrid. Worst of all, I am manless. 'What will come of it?' I hear him mutter. 'If one rides alone, will not more ride after her?'" -"The Pumpkin Eater", Green Monkey Dreams, Isobelle Carmody. | |||||||
| Memories: | 1 entry | |||||||
| Interests: | 81: alice walker, analysis, andrea dworkin, animal rights, ann radcliffe, anti-marriage, anti-patriarchy, audre lorde, australian literature, barbara baynton, bushwalking, catherine helen spence, catherine mackinnon, cats, charlotte barton, charlotte lennox, charlotte perkins gilman, christina stead, christos tsiolkas, clarinet, cora ann weekes, daphne du maurier, ending war, environmentalism, eve kosofsky sedgwick, fair trade, fanfic, fantasy, feminism, finola moorhead, gardening, giovanni's room, global warming, gothic literature, growing my own food, gyn/ecology, henry handel richardson, herstory, isobelle carmody, jane austen, janice raymond, jean rhys, kate grenville, kate millett, l.m. montgomery, laurie r. king, lesbianism, lillian faderman, literature, lloyd alexander, louisa atkinson, louisa lawson, mary daly, mary shelley, mary wollstonecraft, michael ende, miles franklin, mysteries of udolpho, nawal el saadawi, organic food, organic wine, preventing animal cruelty, radical feminism, recycled clothing, renewable energy, ruth park, simone de beauvoir, sonia johnson, sonya hartnett, sustainable living, the brontës, the female quixote, the yellow wall-paper, tori amos, virginia woolf, wide sargasso sea, women, women writers, women's rights, writing, xena: warrior princess | |||||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 10: _allecto_, captainvanille, demonista, dragort, eskarne, hexan_brat, inbizarre, izzerwurst, nymoe, she_evolves | |||||||
| Account type: | Basic Account | |||||||
