The Basics

Name Lauren
Age 24
Location

Kansas City, Missouri
About Me Teen Services Librarian, Queer, Activist, Cyclist, Body-Positive, Loves All Things Vintage.
Check All That Apply

Queer, Femme
Website/Blog/Tumblr whatittakestoknowmyself.tumblr.com
Looking For Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, Queer Friends to Make Out With, A Girlfriend, Business Contacts
Relationship Status Single
Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

You Do You

What I Like

Favorite Books

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Native Son, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Bell Jar, The Things They Carried, Push, The Freedom Writers Diary, Snow Falling on Cedars, Comfort Woman, Jesus Land, Atonement
Favorite Queer Books

First Person Queer: Who We Are (so far), Fingersmith, Stone Butch Blues, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, The Hours, Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman, etc.
Favorite Movies

Shame, Moonrise Kingdom, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Like Crazy, Another Earth, Fried Green Tomatoes, Imagine Me and You, A Very Long Engagement, Kolya, Vier Minuten, and Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, Black Swan, Inception, The Cove, etc.
Favorite TV Shows

Admittedly, I don't watch a lot of television, but I recently enjoyed HBO's "Girls."
Favorite Music

Missy Higgins, First Aid Kit, Dark Prairie, The Staves, Mountain Man, The Jezebels, The Civil Wars, Gillian Welch, Black Prairie, Brandi Carlile, Feist, Gypsy Death Star, Bon Iver, Ed Sheeran, Tegan and Sara (I'm a total and complete fan girl), Chris Pureka, Milo Greene, An Horse, Alanis Morissette, The Joy Formidable, M83, Rae Morris, etc.
Favorite Sandwich

Anything with avacados.

Who I Am

Virtues Humility, Compassion, Loyalty, Generosity, and Patience.
Are You Out To Your.... Everybody
Preferred Underpants Lacy Fancy Stuff