Nicole

The Basics

Name

Nicole

Location

South Bend, Indiana

About Me

About Me

I’m originally from Auckland, New Zealand and am currently undertaking a PhD in English at the University of Notre Dame. I love to read and I watch far too many tv programmes for my own good. I feel slightly ambivalent about Freud, I love the blog Hyperbole and a Half and I live off cheese and pasta.

Check All That Apply

Queer

Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy

Be Kind.

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends on the Internet

Relationship Status

In a Relationship

Virtues

Friendly, weird, down to earth.

Vices

Zero self restraint, easily distracted, I'm a smartass.

Are You Out To Your....

Everybody

What I Like

Favorite Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Great House, The History of Love, Everything is Illuminated, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Incendiary, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, W or the Memory of Childhood, Austerlitz, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, Armadale, Lady Audley’s Secret, The Perks of Being a Wall Flower, Slowness, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, A Man Melting, The Book Thief, The Gathering, The Secret Scripture.

Favorite Queer Books

Pages For You – Sylvia Brownrigg, Affinity – Sarah Waters, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem – Peter Ackroyd.

Favorite Movies

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Four Faced Liar, Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Darko, A Streetcar Named Desire, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Circumstance, Chicago.

Favorite TV Shows

Banshee, Lost Girl, Skins, True Blood, The Mentalist, Community, Pretty Little Liars, Rookie Blue, Lip Service.

Favorite Sandwich

Chicken, Mayo, Lettuce and Peanuts. Yes, that's right, peanuts.

Favorite Quotes

– “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.” Katherine Mansfield
– “On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.” Milan Kundera
– “What then?” sang Plato’s ghost. “What then?” W.B. Yeats

Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday, Things I read that I Loved, Read A F*cking Book

Favorite Writers

Milan Kundera, Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer, W.B. Yeats, Georges Perec, Dave Eggers, Anne Enright, Sebastian Barry, Craig Cliff, Katherine Mansfield, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Beckett, Eleanor Catton.