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Hello, sunshines!

Yo! My name is Isabel, and I am honored/slightly freaked/mostly way excited to be able to guest-blog around here for two weeks. My internet activity happens pretty much at my tumblr, which maintains roughly the formality of the emails I send my best friends, i.e. no formality at all, so it’s a fun new adventure for me to be punctuating and capitalizing all over the place.

I am, in no particular order: 22; foul-mouthed by the standards of many; female; white; five-foot-seven-and-a-quarter (yes, the quarter counts, okay); cis; sweet-toothed; Puerto Rican; indecisive; ADD; an atheist or a secular humanist depending on the day; straight at least thus far; taking time off college for the second time; easily distracted; a New Yorker; soon to start working at the same non-profit I worked at last time I was away from school; fond of bright colors; mostly terrible at taking myself seriously; a cheerful happy person if you factor out of your assessment the three bouts of moderately intense depression I’ve had in the past four years; easily amused; embroiled in a perpetual, passionate love-hate relationship with pop culture; temporarily able-bodied; very close, I think, to exactly the same in person as I am on the internet; and a Capricorn.

Over here, I will be… winging it? HA! Probably, there will be some pop culture stuff; possibly some… other things, too! Of a different, currently unspecified nature! It will be a fun surprise for EVERYONE INVOLVED! Like a surprise birthday party, except instead of ice cream cake, BAM there are five hundred words on Ke$ha, topped with the tasty frosting of Hey Let’s Share A Favorite Girl Singer Of The Moment (hint: yeah, it’s Robyn for me, too. Seriously y’all, her album is amazing). Or… something.

So in real life, this is the part where I start feeling self-conscious about meeting new people and have to focus to keep myself from making weird faces to compensate for being an awkward turtle, BUT LUCKILY FOR US this is the internet, where I can just say I am super pleased to be here & it has been terrific to meet you all; I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. If you want to talk to me one-on-one, the email is isabelthespy [at] gmail [dot] com; if not, I hope to see you around the comments; & many thanks, again, to the Feministe team for having me by.


11 thoughts on Hello, sunshines!

  1. I have always hearted you, Miss Isabel. I wish you a great time here in your guest posting gig. oxox

  2. Yay! I’m glad to see you here, too, Isabel – and looking forward to whatever you’ve got to say.

    I’m looking down at you by about 1/8 of an inch. Darn tootin’ it counts. 🙂

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