Kathleen Mary Barrett
Lauren Robin Blandin
Christina Lizet Roca
Vanessa Olivia Rodriguez
Aria Scott
Stefanie Elenee Smith
Rebecca Nicole Steinmetz
Roxanna Leigh Trudeau
Kathleen Mary Barrett, kay.
Hometown: raised in chicago.
Age: arguably 20.
Major: political science & O+ studies
Minor: english (focus in creative writing)
Identity: miscellaneous.
Horoscope Sign: virgo indeed.
Special Interests & Randomness:
co-pres PRIDE DePaul. Ladyfest Midwest Spk'n Wrd Organizer. SURVIVE member. humming. Cultural Center Board member. zine/literary published poet. self-introspection. 'SAY WORD' open-mic founder. intern/educator for YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS & for "GirlSpeak." Milewalkers. word-spinning. Asian Arts Collective member. grass. thai food. anti-globalization/militarization. delightful open-mic host. leaves. responsible for THE kick-ass programming on campus. skipping. listener (trying).
Recent Gigs: Womyn's Herstory.. "expressions" featured poet.
3.30.2002 (friday)--noon to 5pm.
Sex Toy party w/chicago women's health center!
Personal Statement:
'revolution is like the tao,
if you can name it it doesn't really exist.' --nikki p.
Quote:
'Well isn't that interesting, which is what i usually say
in an academic setting, when i mean ..YOU racist motherfucker!'
--grace chang
'violence breeds violence, anger has always
run my life. how do i teach conscientious non-violence
and whole acts of bravery at the same time?'
--cherie moraga
Lauren Robin Blandin
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Age: 21
Major: Women's Studies
Horoscope Sign: Libra
Identity: I don't want to limit myself...
Special Interests: ballerina, president of S.U.R.V.I.V.E. and W.I.N., Rainbow House intern, art, music, shows, books, films, activism, and too many other things that i can't keep track of...
Personal Statement: "for somewhere
far away
and sometimes it is just in the room next door
a woman is swallowing the fist
of someone else's anger
and I am begging her to find the fury
to raise her hand in alarm
a weapon in defense of her dignity
pleading with her caged voice to rail in combat
against the midnight crack of her bones
the early morning split of your lips
the everyday spill of our daughter's blood
the death of more than one nation"
~Staceyann Chin~
Quote: "The revolution of little girls is bloodlove.
You bleed life and the blood is in my hands.
Smear that fucking blood."
~Christine Doza~
Christina Lizet Roca
Hometown: Maywood, IL
Age: 20
Major: Women Studies & Sociology
Identity:
Horoscope Sign: Cancer
Special Interests: W.I.N. (Women's Issues Network); Concerts and rollerblading-Music: Sleater Kinney, Team Dresch and other riot grRrL music. 80s..Erasure, the Cure, Depeche Mode- etc. Angelina Jolie hehe.
Personal Statement: "One of the great lies of conservatism is that feminism and
femininity are somehow in opposition to each other. Feminism is simply the belief that
woman has the right to become herself, just as a man has the right to become
himself.All decent people, male and female are feminists.The only people who are not
feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the
respect and oppurtunity afforded me. Either you are a feminist or you are a
sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.' - Ani DiFranco
Quote: "I could be demure like girls who are soft for boys who are fearful of getting an earful--BUT I GOTTA ROCK!" - sleater-kinney
Vanessa Olivia Rodriguez (and Stoli)
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Age: 21
Horoscope Sign: Virgo
Major: Psychology & Women's Studies
Minor: Visual Media
Identity: Feminist filmmaker, queer dyke activist, resister, rubgy player
Special Interests: uNordered: Film, shaneca, art, day dreaming, reading, staring at walls, biking, laughing, observing, telling stories, smiling WITH laughter, grrrls, olives, manuela, hot things, green, rugby, heidi, GRRRL House, Frida Kahlo, uni-brows, tattoos, piercings, skin, peace, laugh. oThers: House manager for GRRRL House, tracking expert in Psychology research with Dr. Grant, McNair scholar.
Personal statement: "Behind the story I tell you is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear." - Dorothy Allison
Aria Scott
Hometown: South Side of Chicago
Age: 20
Major: Secondary Education focus in Biology
Minor: Women's Studies
Identity: Only child, big sister (HI EVAN), strong resisting black christian woman
Horoscope Sign: Cancer
Special Interests: Me, God, My brother, Lime Green, My family and everything in life that I support, whether it does or does not contradict itself.
Personal Statement:
Life is never perfect. The only way to get what you want out of life is to go get it yourself. God knows this and this is why he puts people in your life to help you and encourage you to get the best out of life.
Stefanie Elenee Smith
Hometown: Chicago,IL
Age: 19
Major: Business Management
Minor: Philosophy
Identity:Is completely subjective and always in question
Horoscope Sign:Aquarius
Special Interests: philosophy, Chicago Cubs baseball, rollerblading, kickboxing, Edith Wharton novels, industrial music, jazz music, thai food, foreign films, intellectual conversation
Personal Statement: We are each ultimately responsible for ourselves. We each create our own world through which our perceptions are shaped. In defining ourselves and through our actions we exist and evolve as beings that are always becoming.
Quote: "As the future merges into the present, we always abandon one self to become another. We each bear within us a number of possible individuals, a multiplicity of destinies." Miguel de Unamuno
Rebecca Nicole Steinmetz
Hometown: Wheaton, IL
Age: 21
Major: Women's Studies
Minor: French
Identity: pansexual radical feminist womyn-ish vegan person
Horoscope Sign: Capricorn
Special Interests: Discover Chicago Student Mentor for Empowering Chicago's Women;
GRRRL House co-manager; and runs "I Can't Believe It's Vegan!" a one-womyn vegan dessert business-- you can sample my vegan treats at The Pick Me Up Cafe on N. Clark or take a look on my website: www.vegan-desserts.com. Favorite author of the moment: bell hooks.
Personal Statement: "Women choose to be catty, cruel, prejudiced, competitive or jealous of
each other partly because we grow up learning that negative behavior towards women is perfectly
acceptable, and partially because it is a difficult task to see ourselves in our perceptions.
Seeing ourselves requires effort and commitment." -Inga Muscio
Roxanna Leigh Trudeau
Hometown: Momence, IL
Age: 20
Major: Political Science & Women Studies
Minor: International Studies
Identity:
Horoscope Sign: Scorpio
Special Interests:
Personal Statement:
Quote:"And yes I recognize the irony that the very system I oppose affords me the luxury of biting the hand that feeds. But that's exactly why privileged fucks like me should feel obliged to whine and kick and scream - until EVERYONE has everything they need."