Ms. V.

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation High school English teacher
Location Triangle Area, North Carolina, United States
Interests Reading, knitting, my friends, social justice, teaching, Bollywood movies, indie and foreign movies, Indian food, Chinese food, vegetarianism, Indian cultures, Chinese cultures, learning Hindi, taking a stand against racism, annoying high school students ("annoying" is used here as both an adjective and a verb), feminism, peace activism, environmentalism, animal rescue, apostrophe preservation, overcoming my neo-Luddite tendencies
Favorite Movies Bollywood, Veer-Zaara, Rang De Basanti, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Casablanca, Swades, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Heathers, Big Eden, To Live, Lagaan, Dhobi Ghat
Favorite Music Jules Verdone, Bollywood soundtracks, Beatles, Magnetic Fields, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Peter Gabriel, Billy Bragg, Concrete Blonde, Elvis Costello, English Beat, The Clash, Chaka Khan
Favorite Books Where do I start? My favorite writers are: Alice Walker, Ntozange Shange, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Gloria Naylor, Maxine Hong Kingston, Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, Charles Dickens

That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?

I stand on principles, not on living beings.