The Basics
| Name | Lauren |
| Location | Kansas City, Missouri |
About Me
| About Me | Teen Services Librarian, Queer, Activist, Cyclist, Body-Positive, Loves All Things Vintage. |
| Check All That Apply | Queer, Femme |
| Religion/Spirituality/Philosophy | You Do You |
| 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 |
| Virtues | Humility, Compassion, Loyalty, Generosity, and Patience. |
| Are You Out To Your.... | Everybody |
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. |
| Favorite Writers | Zora Neale Hurston, emily m. danforth, Richard Wright, bell hooks, Elie Wiesel, Sapphire, Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters, etc. |