After some prodding by Freddie, I have decided to delurk...
My name is Chuck "Chuck0" Munson and I'm a 32-year-old straight white male
working as a webmaster/librarian/computer specialist for a professional
association in Washington, DC. I'm originally from Kansas and I have no
intention of ever being a university student again since I'm paying off
student loans until I'm 40. That's not to say I'm against lifelong
learning.
I identify myself politically as an anarchist and run one website devoted
to that called the Mid-Atlantic Infoshop (http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/). I
also volunteer my librarian skills to an online anarchist archive called
Spunk Press (http://www.spunk.org/). I'm a big fan of Babylon 5 so I run
another site called the Babylon 5 Zone
(http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1672/bab5.html). I also run a small
mailing list devoted to "Babylon 5 and Anarchy," which delves into the
political dimensions of the show that some people just don't understand.
I've been reading SF off and on since I was kid. In recent years, I've been
very selective, but alot of my reading has been feminist works (Piercy, Le
Guin, Slonczewski). I recently read Le Guin's *Four Ways to Forgiveness*
which I heartily recommend. I'm currently reading Robinson's *Blue Mars*,
which isn't that feminist, but it is very anarchist/libertarian and i find
myself making notes in the margin of a FICTION book.
I come to feminism from my reading and my activist experiences. It is
enlightened by watching the the deleterious effects this patriarchal
capitalist culture has had on my three younger sisters. I try to be as
supportive of them as I can, but it's very hard fighting against my
parent's influences and the overall socialization they have been subjected
to.
Is that good enough?
Can we discuss how nice it would be if Ursula Le Guin did a sequel to Four
Ways which detailed how the women on Yeowe and Werel achieved their own
liberation?
Chuck0
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