NAME:  Jenny


BORN:  1980


BASED IN:  Atlanta, GA


OCCUPATION:  Student, University of Washington
majoring in Sociology and American Ethnic Studies/Asian American Studies



BIGGEST ENEMIES:  bigotry, homophobia, racism,
ignorance (including my own), religious 
proselytization and religious self-righteousness,
classism, sexism, oppressive social constructs, exoticism, Asian fettishism


COLORS:  red, purple, blue


SPIRITUALITY:  agnostic (so, lack thereof i guess)


ETHNIC BACKGROUND:  Taiwanese American 



MUSIC:  Tori Amos, Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco, 
Sarah McLachlan, Utada Hikaru, Chara, Coco Lee, 
Live, Counting Crows, Melissa Etheridge, 
Doria Roberts, La Oreja De Van Gogh, Enya, Moby,
Miles Davis, Madonna, local folk/guitar...

pretty much anything that speaks to me, sounds 
good, or makes me feel good!


FLICKS:  Playing by Heart; Mulan; When Harry 
Met Sally; Boys Don't Cry;
Pretty Woman; Reality Bites; Girl Interrupted; 
Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother); 
Xiu-Xiu (sp?); Raise the Red Lantern; Jacob's Ladder; 
The Sixth Sense; The Breakfast Club; Snow Falling 
on Cedars; Life is Beautiful; The Piano; Billy Elliot;
Princess Mononoke; Tonari no Totoro; Memento;
Picture Bride; Come See the Paradise

BROADWAYS:  Rent, Miss Saigon

LITERATURE:  The Joy Luck Club; 
The Kitchen God's Wife; The Hundred Secret Senses 
(all by Amy Tan); Love! Valour! Compassion! by Terrence 
McNally; The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe; 
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang;
The Harry Potter Books by J.K. Rowling;
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston; Native
Speaker by Chae-rong Lee; Thirty-Nothing by Lisa Jewell

ACTIVITIES:  

-fight against "minor inconveniences"
 
such as homophobia, racism, sexism, or any type of dumb
 
prejudice/mistreatment of humans

-play piano by myself in a quiet, sunlit room
 
-listen to jazz playing in an intimately dark 
and smoky place

-enhance my nihongo skills
 
-chill with peeps;
 
-clubbing or karaoke occasionally
 
-traveling

-visit NYC

-find exciting vegetarian recipes or restaurants

-writing, sometimes

-going to plays or movies



Stuff I Love at Random:  deep vivid sunsets induced by a combination of 
Atlanta smog and haze (hmmm); rain storms; passionate playing 
of music, esp. on guitar/piano;
when a good old song plays on the radio unexpectedly; 
when someone pronounces my surname correctly
the first time!; fresh clean laundrey; 
feel-good movies, as well as completely disturbing ones; 
yummy candles; flowers (esp. roses and sunflowers); 
springtime in the Southeast US, with the dogwoods and azaleas
and daffodils blooming;  Waffle House food; the smell of 
magnolia blossoms; snow and how quiet the world becomes 


ASPIRATIONS:  

Someday, after the power structure
of our society and perhaps other industrialized 
ones has finally become more representative
and everyone can marry 
anyone they want regardless of gender/sex and 
non-straights can be regarded as "normal" by at 
least the government and women aren't expected to 
conform to dumb standards that ultimately make them
sex objects and can get paid and promoted as much 
as men do and still be respected and after our society 
is simply more flexible for all of its inhabitants 
rather than for just those who are in power...
i hope to pursue a career as a professional wine taster 
but still have enough spare time to experiment with 
vegetarian recipes from time to time. 
(well, not really, but, you know)

kawai_panda@hotmail.com

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