“That doesn’t make these people think they are worthy of civil-rights protections. Ask African Americans if they think being “born that way” helped during the hundreds of years they fought for equal rights, or ask women about being born that way and how that helped get the right to vote or other rights.”
— Tracy Baim: In Defense of Cynthia Nixon: Why ‘Born This Way’ Doesn’t Matter | Huffington Post
- female/twenty-six/boston transplant with an nyc heart
is Latvian and probably won't let you forget it.- but was born and went to college in upstate New York.
currently working in higher ed new media / marketing / communications, for a fancy Boston law school's pro bono and public policy center.
soon anticipating a move back to nyc where she belongs.
listens to indie hiphop, indie dance, and Latvian tautas dziesmas. has a special affinity for clever cover songs and mashups.
a few of her favorite things: summertime, campfires, good beer, big cities, warm breezes, starry skies, lightning, proper spelling and grammar but improper capitalization, being "improper," being smart, being a smart ass, authenticity, transparency, politics, sociology and psychology, social issues, the workings of the brain, memes, museums, challenging tradition, challenging people, indigenous peoples, people who are up front, the truth, secular humanism, drawing and painting, tap dance, folk dance, booty shake dance, never ending education, traveling, the Catskill Mountains, Australia and New Zealand, wine, piragi, deep and open conversations about anything and everything, and reading a LOT.
can you keep up with that?% Openness 89% Conscientiousness 68% Extraversion 63% Agreeableness 44% Neuroticism 46%
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