VP team bio: Alex

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Dearest vulva-loving superstars,

As several of you have requested, your friendly neighborhood VP Team members are taking this opportunity to let you get to know us a little better. We will take turns posting our bios about once a week. Check out the tag for this entry to view them all (mine is only the second one--lots more to go!).

Of course, we want to get to know you, too, so if you haven't already and you'd like to, feel free to introduce yourself here, as indicated on the profile page. (Note that you can also now add yourself to VP's Frappr map from the intro page.) If you made your introduction a while ago and your life has changed dramatically since then, reply to your old comment and update us!

Hey all!

I've been hanging around as a maintainer for long enough now that it's probably time I introduced myself to everyone... :-)

I joined VP shortly after getting diagnosed with endometriosis, when I was looking for a place to learn more about it that wouldn't make assumptions about me - and, well, here I found that.

My laundry-list of labels: I'm genderqueer (preferred pronouns are they/them/their); I'm white; I'm physically disabled and mentally ill; I'm upper-middle-class; I'm queer; do not tumble-dry; and I'm based in the UK, but culturally I'm a bit more complicated than that.

Probably more interesting is, well, what I'm interested in: I'm a scientist (rocks! chemistry!); I make music (french horn!); I read a lot of speculative fiction (Dicebox!); I like making cookery up as I go along, and writing fanfic about people who are rubbish at crafts. In very good weeks I go hiking; in bad weeks I curl up in bed and take more painkillers. I knit hats designed to look like vulvas (asymmetric labia ftw!). I was brought up by the Internet, and some times it shows more than others, and I'm joking less than you think. I like open-source software and intersectional models of social justice and watching scientifically inaccurate films for the sake of yelling at them. I have a major thing for kitchen gardens and castles.

And I'm really, really proud to be a part of a community that's so dedicated to being an informative and safer space, and I am absolutely in awe of how awesome you all are. :-)

Looking forward to keeping working for you,
--alex.

PS questions welcome :-)

Comments

[orgine.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the hard work you do to make this community run smoothly.

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Thank you all for making it so easy! :-)

[floette.livejournal.com]

What an amazing introduction! Thanks for all your hard work here, and the other mods, too.

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Aww, glad you liked :D I hate writing that kind of thing, I really do.

And, as I said above, thank you all for making it mostly so easy :-)

[archangelbeth]

...augh, another webcomic to eat me!

enabling

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Nah, it's a three-day marathon tops. And you probably want to sign up to alerts re: updates, because of how irregularly it does.

... and if you buy a copy of the first book before May the 1st, you get to pick the original art for one of the pages ;)

Re: enabling

[archangelbeth]

*hits the end, including the guest comic asides* Waugh! Also, waugh. Waugh! Enabler.

Re: enabling

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

BUT ISN'T IT THE BEST, THOUGH

Re: enabling

[archangelbeth]

WAUGH!

(Namesake comic is pretty good, too, if you haven't encountered it...)

Re: enabling

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

INDEED I HAD NOT but I suppose I know where I'll be spending the rest of my weekend ;)

Re: enabling

[archangelbeth]

Muwhahahah! Turnabout is fair play! O:D

[abalone99.livejournal.com]

Another thank you to throw into the ring! Seriously, this is the nicest, most respectful, thoughtful and helpful community I below to and I cherish the day I stumbled here.

Also, I'm DYING to see pictures of your knitted hats! If you feel comfortable sharing them I'd loooove to see them!

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

I've got a pretty crappy cameraphone photo (http://knitting.dreamwidth.org/83139.html), which doesn't show you the pink glittery button that's underneath the hood, alas! A group of friends has cheerfully suggested I make a version with teeth coming off the brim (presumably with two Really Big Teeth as earflaps...?) :D

I'm also vaguely planning making a series of them - that showcase the range of natural variation in genitals.

And, yeah, like you I pretty much cherish the day I stumbled in here and I'm absolutely astonished that anyone asked me to help maintain this space, but bloody hell I'm proud of it :-)

[reverberance.livejournal.com]

That hat is amazing. Just sayin'.

[kaberett.livejournal.com]

Heh, responses are pretty evenly split between "THAT'S AWESOME CAN I HAVE ONE" and "... oh god you're actually going to wear that in public aren't you ;_;".

[reverberance.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Have you worn it out? I am very curious to know how many people would actually recognise it for what it is, and the trends of who those people might be. ^^

Edit: oh, and whether people would actually speak up about it. I'm not sure I would say to someone 'excuse me, is that a vulva on your head?'... ^_^