About Me: Narcissism and bollocks like that.
Me on the right with my gorgeous friend Duchess Silk at the 'Varietease: Herstory' International Women's Day fundraiser, in our pretentious, Burlesque-y glory. 
So. Yeah – Hi. I’m Kitty.
Women’s Studies Major, Human Rights Activist, Atheist, Childfree, Pole-dancer, Geek, Proud slut and chainsmoking gothtwat. English-Australian heritage and completely incapable of functioning without tea.
I have a bone-deep love of British comedy and believe that Stephen Fry should be supreme ruler of the Earth.
I collect vintage horror films as well as a rapidly expanding array of tattoos and piercings. I get a huge girl-boner for Spider Jerusalem and women with red hair. Cockroaches freak the ever-loving shit out of me and I have to restrain myself from keying cars with ‘Fuck off, We’re Full’ bumper stickers.
I started this blog originally as a way to get shit out of my head and into a more public forum so that people could read, consider and interact with them. It’s as much about communication as it is about my own self-expression – as well as a means for me to keep a record of what I’m thinking and what is happening around me.
I try to update once every two weeks or so, but with two jobs, full-time study, volunteering and a respectable level of debauchery and alcoholism to maintain – it’s doesn’t always work out quite that way.
I love getting feedback (however rare it may be)- so comments, questions and criticism are more than welcome. I started this thing as a means of learning and communicating – so please feel free to contradict me. I might actually learn something. (Doesn’t mean I won’t put up a good fight if I think that I’ve got a half decent argument though!)
So – yeah. Hope that this blog provides at least a few minutes of entertainment – if not pause for thought.
Cheerio.
I applaud your expressed value (in your “about me” page) that we are more than labels. We need to interact with one another in a way that opens heart to heart.
I’m not afraid of you, so I don’t fit the label “phobic”. I don’t hate you, so I don’t fit the label “hatemonger”. (I’m not even a fishmonger.) But I disagree with you. So where does that leave us? Reaching into our buckets to find some other mud to sling? Combing each other’s writings to find grammatical errors to flaunt and material for snarking?
The beliefs that drive our values go deeper than words, so it can be hard to share the planet with people whose values run so very contrary to our own. My experience is that my instinctual reaction of fear is often masked by power-bestowing anger or muffled by life-denying depression. But that’s not how we want to live, so let’s not stop there.
What if we tried to get past that and find out what simple friendship with someone very different can do? I’m sure you have a busy life–everyone does!–but if you want to correspond with someone who will _try_ not to label you :^) I’m open. I found your blog looking for something else (isn’t that always the way), and am not planning to be a regular. One-sided diatribes–sorry, but that’s how it strikes me–are not my cup of tea (ah, tea! an interest I’m glad to share with you!), but emails are great. Your life affects mine, and mine yours, so let’s talk.
Smiles and a hug from 13,426 miles away,
Katie
Hi Kitty,
Christian here, the guy wearing that FSM t-shirt on the train the other day
Anyway, super awesome blog you have here! While it seems we target different issues in the specifics, our core messages seem very similar. We both seem very passionate about individual rights, freedoms and tolerance. While I may focus more on how individuals are harmed by deceptive and fraudulent pseudosciences there is a definite overlap. For a sort of “middle-ground” between us you should check out this group called http://skepchick.org/blog/, it’s an internationally known group of women (and one guy) who write about science and pseudoscience from a womens/feminist perspective. Check it out!
Keep up the awesome work.
- Christian Polson-Brown from Friend of Reason