Corrina
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | Seattle, WA, United States |
| Introduction | I am a single mom and an English teacher. I love my kid. I love my job. I love my friends. I love my friends' kids. I vote. I don't exercise. I like salty snacks. I read a lot. I love my country. I am Jewish, but I want Palestinians to have their own state. I'm a pacifist. And, above all, I want for all of my country's poor to be able to access the services and opportunities they need in order to leave their poverty behind. Oh, yeah, and I have four enormously fat cats, one of whom is feral. |
| Interests | Reding, writing, Composition Studies, Rhetoric/Literacy Studies, teaching, education as a means to ending poverty in the US, raising my son, empowering underprepared moms, politics, my students, my friends, my beautiful, gorgeous, spectacularly obese cats (4). |
| Favorite Movies | Bob Roberts, Midnight Cowboy, Sicko, Hoop Dreams, Dead Man Walking, Wag the Dog, Do the Right Thing, and my favorite movie ever: My Life as a Dog. |
| Favorite Music | Tupac Shakur, The Mountain Goats, anything by Stephen Sondheim, The Decemberists, The Shins, Michael Franti, The Blue Scholars, and all the anti-war Folk singers my mom listened to when I was a kid. |
| Favorite Books | Too many to name, but here are a few: Dennis Kucinich's <i>A Prayer for America</i> plus anything by Deborah Eisenberg, Michael Cunningham, Edward Said, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison (actually just her early stuff), and EL Docotorow. Plus, of course, The Bible, The Talmud, and the Harry Potter series which I read with my son from the time he was 4 until the time he was 13. It's not great literature, but man, it was a fun thing to share with my son. |
Unlike a dog, how can a turtle ever be naked?
Any creature is naked if it knows neither shame nor sin. Hey, it's true.