Katia

The Basics

Name

Katia

Location

Chicago

About Me

About Me

overall, a huge nerd. like, i meeaann, really.
hopelessly addicted to the interwebz.
russian, born & raised.
getting shit done & organizing brings me great joy.
i make food look good for a living, yet struggle with my own culinary ventures.

Check All That Apply

Queer, "Label-Free"

Looking For

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

Relationship Status

Single, Forever Alone, Pining

Virtues

honesty

Vices

honesty. oh, and stubborness (i like my principles?)

Are You Out To Your....

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

What I Like

Favorite Books

‘The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat’ by Oliver Sacks

Favorite Movies

I <3 Huckabees, Everything is Illuminated, Broken Flowers, Howl's Moving Castle, The Darjeeling Limited (anything Wes Anderson, really), Sunshine Cleaning, anything John Waters ever touched, You & Me & Everyone we know, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness, Babel, Sitcom (by François Ozon), stereotypical corny movies about high school and 'coming of age', zombie movies, anything campy/zany.

Favorite Documentaries

Food Inc., This Film is Not Yet Rated, Jesus Camp, Fat Sick & Nearly Dead

Favorite TV Shows

Arrested Development, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Community, Modern Family, Flight of the Concords, Better Off Ted, Archer

Favorite Music

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ Harvey, The Gossip, The xx, Sleater-Kinney, Thao, The Kills, Angel Deradoorian, Fujia & Miyagi, Nouvelle Vague, La Roux, The Rapture, The White Stripes (or anything Jack White ever touched), Thom Yorke, Seu Jorge, the soundtracks to Fallout and the Aviator, Le Tigre, Peaches, Yelle, Depeche Mode, CSS, New Young Pony Club, The Dirty Projectors, Zemfira, Leningrad, Passion Pit, TV on the Radio, Black Keys, some Jay-Z, Jessica Lea Mayfield, The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley (yup), Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, the list goes on and on….

Favorite Sandwich

brie + pear, or anything with lemon aioli

Favorite Thing to Autostraddle

my bed.

Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

y’know.. the gays?
*shrug*

Favorite Writers

Vladimir Nabokov, Fedor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Gabriel García Márquez, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe