Hi, everyone! I’m evil fizz and the lovely Feministe bloggers have graciously invited me to share their platform for the next two weeks. (There is a chance you’ll recognize my name from commenting and my last guest-blogging stint, although it was many moons ago). I’m a white, cis, TAB woman in my late twenties. I’m married to a lovely man who has previously been identified here as T, and we have a daughter, A, who just passed her first birthday. By day, I work for the U.S. government, specifically the Army, where I’m an active duty JAG officer. More specifically, I work as a prosecutor. I’m mentioning my line of work because it informs a lot of my writing and gives my readers a better sense of where I’m coming from, not because I, in any capacity, speak for the Army, DOD, or anything like that. Also, it’s the sort of thing that’s going to limit me in a couple of ways: I won’t be talking about presidential politics, Wikileaks, or operational law. And it’s going to limit my ability to moderate comments effectively, not being able to access Feministe at work except via my phone at lunch and all. I take a reasonably laid-back approach to comment moderation and am quite fond of the local commenting policy, but comments which characterize service members as sadistic jingoists are out. In the event that a thread is getting out of hand, please shoot me an e-mail. It’s just my handle (no spaces or punctuation) at Gmail. Questions, comments, outrage, and vitriol can also be directed to that address.
Aside from that whole JAG thing, I’ve also worked in food service, academia (bioethics and medical ethics), and dabbled in teaching. I really like to cook, and can always be counted on to have a fridge full of cheese and Diet Coke, but never any bell peppers or cilantro. I am prone to abuse parentheses with reckless abandon and am delighted to be here.