Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Please allow me to introduce myself...
I never felt like I gave a proper introduction for myself on this blog, so I guess I could start right now.
Well my name is Mairead, pronounced muh-raide. It's Irish Gaelic. It's impossible to spell/pronounce and it was probably picked at random, but I like it, it suits me.
I'm a 17-year-old high school junior currently residing in Rich White Suburbia, Connecticut, USA, in the colonized lands of the Munsee and Quiripi tribes.
I'm White and 6th-generation Euro-immigrant, and my heritage is made up of Irish (about 75-85%), Scottish, with some English and German.
My sexual orientation is pretty fluid and currently under construction. Truth is, I like ladies, I like menfolk, and everything in between. Love is love and gender is pretty irrelevant. As for gender identity, I'm a cisgender girl, but I don't always present that way (although I usually do). Regardless, my preferred pronouns are she/her/hers.
I'm passionate about social justice, which includes feminism, GSM/LGBTQIA+ rights, neurodiversity, anti-ableism, anti-racism, ad infinitum. Yes, I am a raging politically correct feminist, deal with it.
I also really dig books, art, movies and music. I don't make much music myself (if you want to get a look at my tastes check out my [infrequently used] last.fm page), but I draw and paint, do some creative writing, and I want to make a career out of making movies.
I'm in recovery for alcoholism, and I've been sober since April 29 2011. I hope that this will last. I'm also in Alcoholics Anonymous, and I blog about meetings and sobriety.
Basically this blog will be about social justice, ragey-ness, books, art, movies, music, sobriety, high school, teen angst, and much more. I hope it will be half way decent.
Well my name is Mairead, pronounced muh-raide. It's Irish Gaelic. It's impossible to spell/pronounce and it was probably picked at random, but I like it, it suits me.
I'm a 17-year-old high school junior currently residing in Rich White Suburbia, Connecticut, USA, in the colonized lands of the Munsee and Quiripi tribes.
I'm White and 6th-generation Euro-immigrant, and my heritage is made up of Irish (about 75-85%), Scottish, with some English and German.
My sexual orientation is pretty fluid and currently under construction. Truth is, I like ladies, I like menfolk, and everything in between. Love is love and gender is pretty irrelevant. As for gender identity, I'm a cisgender girl, but I don't always present that way (although I usually do). Regardless, my preferred pronouns are she/her/hers.
I'm passionate about social justice, which includes feminism, GSM/LGBTQIA+ rights, neurodiversity, anti-ableism, anti-racism, ad infinitum. Yes, I am a raging politically correct feminist, deal with it.
I also really dig books, art, movies and music. I don't make much music myself (if you want to get a look at my tastes check out my [infrequently used] last.fm page), but I draw and paint, do some creative writing, and I want to make a career out of making movies.
I'm in recovery for alcoholism, and I've been sober since April 29 2011. I hope that this will last. I'm also in Alcoholics Anonymous, and I blog about meetings and sobriety.
Basically this blog will be about social justice, ragey-ness, books, art, movies, music, sobriety, high school, teen angst, and much more. I hope it will be half way decent.
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