Rachel

The Basics

Name

Rachel

Location

Boston

About Me

Check All That Apply

Queer

Website/Blog/Tumblr

http://lafourire.tumblr.com/

Looking For

Queer Friends in my Area, Queer Friends to Make Out With

Relationship Status

Single

Are You Out To Your....

Everybody

What I Like

Favorite Books

The History of Love by Nicole Kraus & a few dozen others.

Favorite Queer Books

The Realm Of Possibility, Stone Butch Blues & Orlando. But I can analyze any book into queerdom.

Favorite Movies

Amelie & Frida.

Favorite Documentaries

I once saw one on PBS years ago about two boys who lived in Appalachia and one was in a death metal christian band. For some reason, that documentary stuck with me more than any I’ve ever seen.

Favorite TV Shows

Coupling! The first half of the L Word. Glee, sometimes.

Favorite Music

Lotsa gay stuff — tegan & sara, melissa ferrick, chris pureka, girlyman, ani, sick of sarah. I loved the Indigo Girls when I was 13 and straight. But I do branch out — Metric, Fischerspooner, K’naan, Carbon Leaf. Counting Crows has a special place in my heart. Gaga, of course.

Favorite Sandwich

People sandwich! Like spooning though, not cannibalism.

Favorite Thing to Autostraddle

Bikes. They're more eco-friendly than auto(mobiles).

Favorite Quotes

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy; if the world were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I wake up each morning torn between a desire to save the world and a desire to savor the world. This makes it very hard to plan the day.” — E. B. White

Favorite Thing on Autostraddle.com

The Lesbian Purity Test. I’ve always wondered what that would look like. Thanks, Autostraddle!

Favorite Writers

Virginia Woolf, David Levithan, Billy Shakespeare, Nicole Kraus (hey, a straight author! weird), Rumi, a variety of poets & queer theorists & political theorists