Hi there, Internet. How do you do.

I'm Argentinian but quite acclimated to Irish culture. Girl despite appearances, geeky but not sciencey and queer to the brainballs. Let's spin

To get things out of the way: I am a trans girl. I am also queer, in the sense that I'm kinky, I'm into alternative relationship arrangements, and open to new experiences, learning along the way. If you are not willing to accept my identity, or you find me disgusting or are put off by the T deal, don't contact me. I kick ass and take names and have no qualms about adding more people to that list just because 'trans' is scary to you. Right.

That out of the way, I'm not unfriendly, I swear

I love music, which is always cyclical and seems to come back to some sort of stompy rock of the riot grrrl variety. Right now, however, I've finally gotten around to listening to Sebastian Tellier. But I'm also back to listening to broken social scene, so I doubt I'm moving forward. More like crawling sideways.

I define myself as an anarchist queer feminist, politically. Feminism fucking rocks, and it's part of the reason why I define myself as genderqueer. I hope that if you don't know what this means, you'll be curious and open minded enough to find out. I don't mind answering questions on things as long as they're asked with respect, and "no" is taken for an answer when appropriate :)

What else... I'm a sop, I guess, for I love poetry and music lyrics a lot. Yes, yes, yes, I am that person, the one that may sometimes listen to music that ain't that great or innovative but has great lyrics. Sue me. Actually please don't sue me I don't understand lawyers and things :(

Cog in the machine and occasional span in the works. I wish I was a spiky cog. That vibrated maybe.

I'm involved in a number of activist projects in Dublin, including queer and pro-choice groups. I run workshops, help run gigs and protests, etc. It's my principle though that activism has to have a fun element, and humour about itself. I hate hate HATE the stuffy anarchist groups run by straight cis men with a chip on their shoulder. Argh.

I also think we need a sexy revolution.

I write zines. Like everybody. I saw an episode of the Tudors where they mentioned Henry VIII wrote a pamphlet on how great the Pope was. It was a Pope fanzine! Older than dirt.

Writing, blogging, making playlists (oh yeah), taking boring polaroids of dublin city alleys (on extremely rare sunny days). Playing Megaman games while drunk. Baking vegan cakes that are yummy to eat. Making vegetarian stews.

I also love doing cross-stitching and graffiti art. I am not very good at either but I enjoy them nonetheless! I also write poetry and lyrics, short stories, articles on stuff from comics to queerness to trans stuff to pro-choice stuff and back again.

Hair. It's all curly and in ringlets and people keep touching it. Which is fine until my eyes glow red and I go "boundaries!"

Nowadays it's worse, because the noticeable undercut draws even more attention, and more touchy! But mostly it's my friends. And they feel it like a cat and I purr a little and then go HEY WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.

My friends rock.

a) Books: 1984 by George Orwell, Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, The Acid House by Irvine Welsh, The Tunnel by Ernesto Sábato, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Demian by Hermann Hesse, Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Whipping Girl by Julia Serano, Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg, That's Revolting edited by Mattilda, Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein,

b)movies: Pepi Luci Bom, Christiane F, Lilya 4-Ever, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Star Wars, Intermission, Goodbye Lenin, Sophie Scholl, The Lives of Others, Train of Life, The Field, Volver, Nine Queens, Festen, Dasepo Naughty Girls, The Raspberry Reich

c) music: Le Tigre, Sleater-Kinney, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Suede, The Smiths, The Pogues, Party Weirdo, Queen Kong, The Mountain Goats, The Clash, Smashing Pumpkins, Tychonaut, Placebo, Dead Kennedys, Television, Joy Division, The Pixies, Excuse 17, Victor Jara, Bersuit Vergarabat, Fabulosos Cadillacs, The Go! Team, Stars, Arcade Fire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Broken Social Scene, Belle & Sebastian, Pavement, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau twins, Thee More Shallows, Turpentine, the technoillogical myopia, Bikini Kill, Heavens to Betsy, Astor Piazzola, Tanghetto, Gotan Project, Four Tet, Holy Fuck, Bratmobile, Babes in Toyland, Bela Emerson, Rae Spoon, Tribe 8, L7, Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sebastian Tellier

d) food: pasta, stir-fries, goulash, sushi, other stuff. Been a Vegetarian since March 2008, still going strong! I've also picked up a recent addiction to Rooiboosh (Red bush) tea. Perfect with a little spoonsful of demerara sugar!

e) TV Shows: I don't own a TV but there are some shows I do follow. I just generally don't like the idea of sitting down to watch TV unless I am watching something in particular. In no particular order: Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Six Feet Under, Absolutely Fabulous, Spaced, MASH, Black Books, Peep Show, Father Ted, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Monkey Dust, The Office (UK), Extras, Kamen Rider

f) comics: I am adding comics here, because I'm a huge fan of comics and they deserve their own section!

Manga/anime: Silent Mobius, The Rose of Versailles, To Terra, Azumanga Daioh, Revolutionnary Girl Utena, Planetes, Mobile Suit Gundam, SDF Macross, Tokyo Babylon, The Five Star Stories, Neon Genesis Evangelion

American comics: Dykes to Watch Out For, Fun Home, Love and Rockets, Maus, Watchmen, Justice League (Giffen-DeMatteis era), Green Lantern-Green Arrow (O'Neal-Adams run), The Sandman, Calvin and Hobbes, American Splendor, Transmetropolitan

Webcomics: Nothing Nice to Say, Cat and Girl, Achewood, Sinfest, Venus Envy, Planet Karen, Pictures for Sad Children, Minus, Three Panel Soul, Li'l Formers, Penny Arcade, Something Positive, xkcd, Hark! A vagrant

European/other comics: Persepolis, Mafalda, Boogie El Aceitoso, V for Vendetta, Baker Street, Corto Maltese, Cybersix, Maitena, Nemi, Asterix, El Eternauta

1. books. I carry one or two, generally a fun one and a heavier one. Or a comic and a novel.

2. notepad. For random thoughts and all the wonderful uses that paper has. (latest habit: writing cryptic notes and leaving them behind conspicuously in rush hour dublin buses)

3. music player. For blocking off the outside world and enabling the occasional biking accident

4. zines! I love zines and am working on a few. I devour them with the voracity of a very voracious thing.

5. comics. I'm all over art, specially if it's sequential

6. muesli, tea and coffee.

Dictatorships, the patriarchy and its ever-reaching slimy tentacles, rhyme and the beauty/absurdity of small everyday things. Also about fun tags or stencils or stories I'm making up in my head and which, due to my disorganised nature, rarely leave the confines of my skull.

Either staying at home with articles to write and copious amounts of red wine, or off somewhere causing trouble. I now live very near the city centre, hence Gardai have had more than a few ticks in their "messing around" column of their nightly activity reports.

Snails freak me out. They really do. They're spiral dammit! Spiral! And have no legs!

You're into the whole "class war" thing, you like mundane and non-mundane creative pursuits, hate and/or greatly dislike the patriarchy, and oh yeah, if you're not afraid of queerness or gender variance. I don't bite, unless you ask me to.

Or if you feel like arguing with me about all that. That'd be amusing for a while! Unless you're a Young Fine Gael, Young Fianna Fail or former Young Progressive Democrat. Then I'd just say "bored now" and melt you with my mindbeams.