rocketfairy

user since: Sun Mar 30 2003 at 21:17:50 (21.1 years ago )
last seen: Sun May 2 2010 at 02:13:05 (14 years ago )
number of write-ups: 8 - View rocketfairy's writeups (feed)
level / experience: 1 (Novice) / 118
mission drive within everything: Node every (less-known) book and author that has made me smarter. Also, every Stephin Merritt song.
specialties: History (emancipation periods), anthropology (legal, miscellaneous), vegan cooking, urban archaeology, contemporary labor movements
school/company: Columbia University
motto: "Workers of the world, relax!"
most recent writeup: US ranking on the Human Freedom Index
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Authors:

Michel Foucault
Virginia Woolf
Thomas C. Holt
The Subaltern Studies collective
George Orwell
Kim Stanley Robinson
Walter Benjamin
Andrea Dworkin, although I tend to disagree with her
Zadie Smith
Frantz Fanon
Antjie Krog
Bob Black, one of the last great assholes
C.L.R. James
Chris Ware
David Sedaris
Dave Eggers
Inga Muscio
Lately, Haruki Murakami, and ...
James Baldwin

Musicians (just the big ones):

Ani DiFranco
1905
The Weakerthans and Propagandhi
Los Crudos
Submission Hold
Le Tigre
pg.99
Asian Dub Foundation
awful rap, including Eminem and, lately, Busta Rhymes
The Magnetic Fields

Hobbies:

Academic interests:

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
post-emancipation Jamaica
the Naxalite movement
bourgeois Victorian shoplifters (node pending)

I'm a student in New York. I am active in labor (see United Students Against Sweatshops) and anti-rape politics, and in the throughly frustrating peace movement. I hail from Massachusetts, but like Portland, Oregon and Manhattan a lot better.