The Basics

Name Kelsey

About Me

Age 25
Location

Chicago, IL
About Me I'm a slowpoke but I'm pretty neat. I like to read, and I care about social justice, and I enjoy pretty things like paintings and Springtime in Chicago!
Check All That Apply

Lesbian, Gay
Looking For Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, Queer Friends to Make Out With, A Girlfriend
Relationship Status Single
Virtues Pure love, dimples
Vices Black and white thinking, obsessive personality
Are You Out To Your.... Member(s) of Immediate Family, Close Friends, School/Work, Other

What I Like

Favorite Books

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Sula, Passing, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Hours, Taylor Branch's "America in the King Years" trilogy, any and all of Alice Munro's collections
Favorite Queer Books

Um… The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers always seemed pretty gay to me!
Favorite Movies

Chocolat (Claire Dennis – not the one with Johnny Depp!), The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Fresh, Marie Antoinette, Higher Ground, Beautiful Girls, Valmont, Nothing But A Man
Favorite Music

Dire Straits, Albert Ayler, The Velvet Underground, Stevie Wonder, Indigo Girls, Wings, Califone, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Harry Nilsson, Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Badly Drawn Boy, Joanna Newsom, Leonard Cohen, Prince, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Built to Spill, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pavement
Favorite Sandwich

I like any cheese/jam combo.
Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

The general feeling of it all, and Laneia, and food posts.
Favorite Writers

Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Carson McCullers, Nella Larsen, Michael Cunningham, Madeleine L'Engle, Alice Munro, Taylor Branch