I like lively discussions on politics and ethics, people who love what they do, feminist and anti-o criticism, gallery and cafe hopping, bike paths, and broccoli.

Investing time and tuition in critical theory and postcolonial literature, hoping one of them will save the world.

Teaching in an increasingly neoliberal university system, trying to make the best of it.

Cooking, dancing, writing & editing, listening, drinking, feminist criticism, making great trad caps.

Writing tastes are always in flux, but lately I've been excited about Jhumpa Lahiri, Kyo Maclear, Jasbir Puar, and Sara Ahmed. Older favourites include Joan Didion, Alice Munro, Jeanette Walls, Jonathan Safran Foer, Judith Butler. I also read The New Yorker religiously.

As for music, there are too many favourites to name, but recently I've been hung up on The Knife, CocoRosie, Joanna Newsom, The National, Chad VanGaallen, Matthew Ryan, Fleet Foxes. I've also been rediscovering Yo La Tengo and Sleater-Kinney.

Food--yeah, I'm a fan. I particularly like really good vegan pho, super hearty salads, and any kind of curry. I've also come late, but with much enthusiasm, to a love of avocados.

You, me, and how it all fits together.

More specifically, the dynamics of privilege, power, and choice.

You're interesting and political, think we might get on well, and would like to discuss it further over a full bodied red.