hellooo queermail!

[burningstarre.livejournal.com]

Name: Angela

Age: 22

Location: Queens, NY

How do you identify?: Queer and femme... I'm cisgendered but I hate identifying as a man/woman or male/female.

Interests/hobbies: I looove reading and writing, drawing, painting. I love traveling, seeing new places and going on adventures. Listening to music, watching movies, being with people who make me smile. I love learning languages! I like politics and the world. I'm a big feminist and gender theory nut.

Favorite books: Oh my god I read a lot so this is hard. I read lots of nonfiction, mostly stuff on politics and sociology (as soon as I get "Half the Sky" by Nick Kristof in the mail I'll lock myself in my room and be dead to the world until I'm done with it). I also read fiction -- lately I've been rereading lots of classics. My all time favorites include Alice in Wonderland and the Catcher in the Rye, and anything by George Eliot!

Favorite films: When people talk about movies I can almost never follow the conversation, so that shows you how familiar I am with that category. But I really like foreign films -- Italian, French, and Bollywood are some of my favorites. I also love scary movies and indie stuff. I don't go to the movies often so I'm kind of in my own bubble with that.

Favorite music: Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, and people who sound like them. Simon and Garfunkel, Amy Winehouse, Tori Amos... I like acoustic stuff, blues, jazz, folk, and all kinds of classic and alternative rock. I'm just getting more into Norah Jones, John Mayer, and Carla Bruni. I also listen to a lot of Spanish stuff (La Oreja de van Gogh, Amaral, Alejandro Sanz). I'm always trying to find new, good music.

What would you like to send/receive?: Letters, postcards, packages! Tradeoffs of books or mixed CDs would be cool. Or art or poetry! And I absolutely love receiving things in other languages.

Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: Anybody who shares my interests or just likes to write and make friends!

What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: Everywhere!! Places far away. And if you haven't noticed, I love languages, so if you don't like English or speak/are studying another language (particularly Portuguese or Russian!) it's even better. I speak Spanish and some French, but I love languages and want to learn as many as I can!

Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: Umm no food or liquids, and no gross, sexual, or illegal items. Unless we've discussed it beforehand. ;D

What would be in your dream letter or package?: Something unique, that I couldn't just go get myself. Something that opens my mind and/or puts a smile on my face!

Anything else you'd like to add?: I love learning new things and meeting new people, and I love intellectual conversation! My least favorite things are closed minded or judgmental people, or liars.

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[jitusk.livejournal.com]

Name: Ji

Age: 20

Location: Longmont, Colorado

How do you identify?: Transmasculine androgyne, fancies the androgynous and masculine and get into a little BDSM.

Interests/hobbies: I'm really into science fiction, video games, and graphic novels. I love creative expression, and personally get into a lot of visual art (mostly in photoshop), as well as participate in a lot of free form text based roleplaying. Culture and language are really big interests of mine, as well as traveling.

Favourite books: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, 1984 by George Orwell, The Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton.

Favourite films: Fight Club, Das Experiment, How to Train Your Dragon

Favourite music: Industrial genres mainly, mostly electronic or electronic hybrids. Bands include: Oomph!, KMFDM, Punish Yourself, Rammstein, Atsushi Sakurai.

What would you like to send/receive?: Letters, cards, maybe little packages... That sort of thing. Enough to have fun and get creative, but that doesn't cost a substantial amount.

Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: Anyone who digs it, anyone who wants to ask me questions, whatever. Would be absolutely amazing to find another Dutch speaker to correspond with!

What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: I'm open to the world, though if postage costs more correspondence will probably be slower.

Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: Not that I can think of, common sense providing. :P

What would be in your dream letter or package?: Individuality and creativity. :) Just be yourself!

Anything else you'd like to add?: Nyup

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[wurdsinmyhead.livejournal.com]

Name: Megan

Age: 19

Location: Alabama

How do you identify?: Female - lesbian.

Interests/hobbies: I love music, reading, traveling, concerts, learning new things, making new things (crocheting, knitting, screen printing-sort of, paper making, book binding), animals, drawing, and more but that can be covered in letters so I won't go on for days and days!

Favourite books: I love to read, and lately this past year since starting college, I basically stopped reading for pleasure, which killed me even if I didn't do anything for it really. However, I'm not making up for lost time! My all-time favorites include 1984, The Bermudez Triangle, Brave New World, and The Realm of Possibility.

Favourite films: I don't watch many movies, but I just got a Netflix subscription to change this. :) Recommendations are always welcome! I love Garden State, Alice in Wonderland, August Rush, Empire Records, and RENT.

Favourite music: I sold my soul to Tegan and Sara fandom. Not really, but I can't even begin to explain my love for them. Other favorites include Missy Higgins, Jimmy Eat World, Brandi Carlile, Brightwood, Holly Miranda, City and Colour, and Ingrid Michaelson.

What would you like to send/receive?: Letters for sure! That's what penpals are for, right? I can't afford to send many packages, but I typically send little packages around birthdays and holidays, and also love to swap mix cd's occasionally... new music makes me happy. :]

Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: Anyone who shares similar interests, likes to learn new things, speaks English (it's all I know right now unfortunately.. I know minimal French, and am looking to improve that, so I'm also open to French speakers as long as they are very patient as right now I'm not even at the conversational level with it.), really anyone who is up for it!

What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: Anywhere and everywhere, as long as you speak English!

Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: (eg. "food/candy with nuts") If it's legal, I'm up for it?

What would be in your dream letter or package?: Whatever you want to include. I won't be able to send many things very often beyond letters, so I'm not asking for anything beyond that! :)

Anything else you'd like to add?: I love snail mail, and haven't had penpals in a while so I'm excited about getting started back into it. :D Can't wait to hear from you!