Greetings! I'm a bit behind my Campus Q Team buddies on posts, but I've been swamped with writing my theses and working on the University of Florida's Pride Awareness Month celebration. I just wanted to share a bit about myself with you all; I'm not all that interesting, I don't think, but I'd also like to believe I'm not all that boring, either. =P

So this is me. I'm a 4th year Women's Studies major with a concentration in Theories and Politics of Sexuality and a minor in Religion at the University of Florida. I graduate in three weeks! ... and I have no job lined up! *sad face*. Its a tough time for job searching, but if you're queer and looking for jobs over the next year, definitely be sure to use Out for Work's resources for job searching (I used to work at UF as a "Career Ambassador"... I love this kind of stuff). Their next college student career conference is coming up:
2009 West Coast Regional
OUT for Work LGBTQA College Student Career Conference
April 17-19, 2009 at UCLA

But anywhos, back to me... I'm heavily involved in the LGBTQ organizing work done on UF's campus, serving as the Vice-President of Education for our Pride Student Union, among other former positions on campus (LGBT Affairs student assistant, Office of Sorority and Fraternity Affairs LGBT concerns intern, etc.). I also organize our campus's "Speaker's Bureau" service, which I think is an amazing service for college campuses (expect a blog about it later), and I personally enjoy organizing it largely because not only does it allow students to be educated by their LGBTQ peers, but it provides a good space for LGBTQ students to more concretely examine their personal stories and how they understand their own identities. I personally have grown a lot in understanding my own identities through speaking about them to mass audiences, and have found both comfort and challenge in negotiating a binary-based sexuality (gay) and binary-based gender (man) versus a binary-breaking sex (intersex). It's been both an enlightening process and a trying struggle, but part of the college experience is finding oneself, and I'm happy I have.

... but I ramble. Quick run-down of my interests, which you might find me blogging on:
(1) Queerness in video games (my senior thesis is on this topic)
(2) LGBTQ issues in fraternities and sororities (my university-funded research is on queer men of color in fraternities)
(3) Intersex activism and challenging sex binaries
(4) Religion and LGBTQ identities (particularly Hinduism, Judaism, and Baha'i)
(5) LGBTQ issues in higher education in general (I'm job-searching, like I said, so feel free to hire me!)

For non-LGBTQ-related areas of interest:
(1) Feminist/Critical pedagogy
(2) Disability and crip theory
(3) Religion and Spiritual diversity
(4) ...video games in general (rawr, I'm a nerd. RPGs all-the-way)
(5) Japanese language and modern culture (because I've studied there, not because I'm a video game nerd)
(6) Multiculturalism and Social Justice (duh)

I think that's a fairly thorough introduction... Feel free to post comments/questions below! I'm happy to converse via blog. Expect more information on those topics above and more as I continue blogging.

Oh, and I think this is an appropriate "signature"... I'm gonna end with a random song that I'm enjoying listening to everytime I post just for fun. Here's my first one: Blue Sugar, a Flo Rida "Sugar" and Eiffel 65 "Blue" mash-up

See ya!