Autostraddle

The Basics

Name

Amy

Location

Seattle

About Me

About Me

Awesome, chemistry grad student

Check All That Apply

Lesbian, Queer, Other

Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

Open-minded Atheism

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet, Queer Friends to Make Out With, A Girlfriend

Relationship Status

Single

Are You Out To Your….

Member(s) of Immediate Family, Close Friends, All Friends, School/Work

What I Like

Favorite Books

The Poisonwood Bible, Middlesex, The God of Small Things, Play it as it Lays, The Bell Jar, The Hours

Favorite Queer Books

Rent Girl, Valencia, Fun Home, Skim, A Home at the End of the World, Another Country, Close to the Knives, Written on the Body, Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, History of Sexuality Vol. 1 (and other theory)

Favorite Movies

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, But I’m a Cheerleader, American Beauty, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Girl Interrupted, Little Miss Sunshine, High Fidelity

Favorite TV Shows

Daria, The Wire, Dead Like Me, 30 Rock, The Simpsons

Favorite Music

Lately: The Magnetic Fields, Sharon Van Etten, Wye Oak, The National, Le Tigre, Peaches, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Royksopp, Goldfrapp, Florence + the Machine

Favorite Sandwich

Cheese and Tomato

Favorite Thing to Autostraddle

Books

Favorite Quotes

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” – Sylvia Plath

“Being told you are a worthless piece of shit and not believing it is a form of resistance.” – Kathleen Hanna

Favorite Writers

Joan Didion, Lori Moore, Michelle Tea