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About Me
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About This Blog
This is a personal blog. It's one part personal stuff, one part media that I'm into, and one part sociopolitical issues I care about.
Things on my mind lately include Battlestar Galactica, the fate of River Song, the challenges of traveling solo as a woman, and how to transcend misogynistic narratives in traditional Appalachian music.
Stuff I typically blog:
→ politics (American and international)
→ international relations
→ social justice (especially intersectional feminism)
→ language & linguistics
→ the Balkans
→ Palestine
→ gymnastics → personal stuff
→ Alison Krauss
→ fandom
This blog doubles as an Alison Krauss' boobs appreciation blog because for some reason, when you do a Google search for Alison's boobs, my blog is generally the first relevant result. I don't know how this happened, but I will accept it. If people are gonna be googling her boobs, better they find the blog of a fangirl expressing solidarity than that of some skeezy dude objectifying her.
If I ever disappear or get hacked, find me at iellaantilles.tumblr.com.
23. Female. Southern. Progressive. Feminist. Linguaphile. Holds a B.A. in Global Studies and a CELTA. Obsessed with the Balkans and the Middle East. Currently living in Prague, Czech Republic and looking for a job.
Co-creator and co-mod of Fuck Yeah Alison Krauss. (Alison Krauss gave me a cold once. It was awesome.)
Speaks English, French, and Spanish with varying degrees of success; converses haltingly in Czech; understands a bit of written Quenya; sings along with Nancy Ajram songs in mangled Arabic.
If there’s one question that drives me the most, it’s how my generation can use our global interconnectedness to break down barriers and seek cross-cultural solutions to problems.
As Rachel Maddow once said, I try to pursue bad arguments wherever I find them. Don’t take it personally.
If you have a problem with the way I fangirl: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
If you have a problem with my feminism: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
General fandom stuff: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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