Introductory Post
Not that there's anyone here yet to read this, but it's a start :-)
My name's Angela and for awhile I've been wanting to start a personal blog. I've been blogging for years now (probably around 5 or 6 - I started back in high school and I just finished my fourth year of college - one more semester to go! Super senior!) but all of my blogs tend to become general purpose ones - I blog about how my day is going, my reactions to current events, and my fandom activities all in the same place. However that last category (which probably accounts for 40% of my posts in other blogs) means that my writing can't get a very large audience. Either I want to maintain control over who gets to read about that part of my life, or other people don't want to read about that. The events of Strikethrough '07 underscored the need for privacy in that aspect of my 'net life. As people were throwing around LJ alternatives that we should all emigrate to en masse, I saw InsaneJournal mentioned and quickly staked my claim to a couple of names on here. When I finally decided (after posting twice in my other blog today about current events) to get up and start that new blog, this is where I came.
So I plan on posting about a lot of things, many of which will have a feminist orientation. That's how I roll and I'm not going to hide it. Not everything will be explicitly feminist - after all, feminist issues are human issues - but it's a way of thinking that infiltrates all parts of my life so I'm going to be upfront about its existence.
I've been a feminist of varying shades of "radicalness" for as long as I can remember (and will forever identify myself as a radical feminist - no matter what other people may think I am - because the original meaning of radical was akin to heartfelt or passionate). My mom's a feminist (of a different stripe than I am, but a feminist nonetheless) and she raised me well :-) On other personal notes, I'm 22, preparing to graduate with a major in English Language, Literature and Writing and a minor in Communication/Theatre Arts from EMU. I spent the last two years preparing to go into education before realizing last month that no, I don't actually want to teach (I want to be a librarian eventually). So I've switched my major (third time!) and am planning on doing...something after I graduate in December. I'm looking at editing for a young adult publishing company (outside of feminism, my passion is reading, especially YA lit. Don't be surprised if you see some YA lit related posts here) but I'm still not positive what I'm going to end up doing. I know I'm going to end up somewhere with my boyfriend of the last three years, who wants to act and/or write and/or direct (my baby, the starving artiste!)
My name's Angela and for awhile I've been wanting to start a personal blog. I've been blogging for years now (probably around 5 or 6 - I started back in high school and I just finished my fourth year of college - one more semester to go! Super senior!) but all of my blogs tend to become general purpose ones - I blog about how my day is going, my reactions to current events, and my fandom activities all in the same place. However that last category (which probably accounts for 40% of my posts in other blogs) means that my writing can't get a very large audience. Either I want to maintain control over who gets to read about that part of my life, or other people don't want to read about that. The events of Strikethrough '07 underscored the need for privacy in that aspect of my 'net life. As people were throwing around LJ alternatives that we should all emigrate to en masse, I saw InsaneJournal mentioned and quickly staked my claim to a couple of names on here. When I finally decided (after posting twice in my other blog today about current events) to get up and start that new blog, this is where I came.
So I plan on posting about a lot of things, many of which will have a feminist orientation. That's how I roll and I'm not going to hide it. Not everything will be explicitly feminist - after all, feminist issues are human issues - but it's a way of thinking that infiltrates all parts of my life so I'm going to be upfront about its existence.
I've been a feminist of varying shades of "radicalness" for as long as I can remember (and will forever identify myself as a radical feminist - no matter what other people may think I am - because the original meaning of radical was akin to heartfelt or passionate). My mom's a feminist (of a different stripe than I am, but a feminist nonetheless) and she raised me well :-) On other personal notes, I'm 22, preparing to graduate with a major in English Language, Literature and Writing and a minor in Communication/Theatre Arts from EMU. I spent the last two years preparing to go into education before realizing last month that no, I don't actually want to teach (I want to be a librarian eventually). So I've switched my major (third time!) and am planning on doing...something after I graduate in December. I'm looking at editing for a young adult publishing company (outside of feminism, my passion is reading, especially YA lit. Don't be surprised if you see some YA lit related posts here) but I'm still not positive what I'm going to end up doing. I know I'm going to end up somewhere with my boyfriend of the last three years, who wants to act and/or write and/or direct (my baby, the starving artiste!)
