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[mieystrapurore.livejournal.com]

Name: Fei

Age: 26

Location: Melbourne, Australia (but soon moving back to Bay Area, California)

How do you identify?: (sexuality/gender) gaysian, queer wom*n of color, androgynous

Interests/hobbies: Environmental science, sustainability, vegetarianism, urban gardens, sustainable agriculture, wanderlust, traveling, jazz, indie folk music, music, guitar, acrylic painting, collaging, street art, letter writing, building communities, activism, volunteering, reading, cooking, baking, Chinese, self identity, places between places, collecting quotes, stories, road trips, gender bending, LGBTQ rights, womanism, race issues, social justice, food justice

Favorite books: Ishmael, Deep Economy, Eaarth, Gun Germs and Steel, Short History of Everything, Handmaiden's Tale, Otherland, the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (anything by Murakami), Good Omens, Tuesdays with Morrie, Master and Margarita, the Lost Continent, Blink, His Dark Materials, Redwall, Incarnations of Immortality, The Alchemist, The White Tiger, The Book Thief, American Gods, Little Bee, Middlesex, Omnivore's Dilemma, Just Food, Voyages of Doctor Dolittle, What is the What, This Bridge Called My Back, Asian American Dreams, Sister Outsider, Daring Greatly, The Night Circus, Harry Potter and many more. I love reading.

Favorite films: Princess Mononoke (and others by Miyazaki), Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Serenity, Into the Wild, Forrest Gump, Prisoner of Azkaban, V for Vendetta, Garden State, Across the Universe, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 10th Kingdom, Star Trek (2009), Pan's Labrynith.

Favorite TV: Bones, Firefly, Glee

Favorite music: Love jazz and indie folk. Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Hiromi, Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Yo-Yo Ma, the Xx, Stars, Iron and Wine, Beatles, Great Lake Swimmers, Grizzly Bear, Elliot Smith, Beirut, Nick Drake, Moby, Midlake, Andrew Bird, Jose Gonzalez, Junip, Good Asian Drivers, Melissa Li

What would you like to send/receive?: Snail mail is all good, I'm big into sending arts stuff! Am also looking for new LJ friends!

Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: Whomever! Anyone who identifies as QPOC would be awesome!

What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: Anywhere!

Anything else you'd like to add?: I'm finishing up grad school and am moving back to CA (where I'm originally from) soon. It's a new chapter in my life and I'm pretty excited about all the new possibilities. This is my second time doing this, the first time being when I graduated from college, so I think it's fitting to connect with some new folks.

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[sinipiika.livejournal.com]

Name: Katja

Age: 25

Location: Tampere, Finland (In Northern Europe, Scandinavia.)

How do you identify?: At the moment, I identify as non-binary. It's a pretty recent realization and I'm not sure what it means regarding my sexual identity, yet.

Interests/hobbies: I read a lot of fiction and also some books on society, gender studies, queer studies, literary history and literary theory. I play classical music and sing in a feminist choir. I'm very much into Postcrossing, which is sending postcards to strangers around the world, but I also really like receving mail from people I actually know. I'm interested in literature, gender studies, queer studies, queer theory, Ireland and many other things. I'm in some fandoms, e.g. Harry Potter, BBC Sherlock and Lord of the Rings. I drink a lot of tea and use most of my little amount of extra money on books and tea.

Favourite books: The Harry Potter series (I'm a huge fan!), Oscar Wilde's work (especially his plays), Emma Donoghue's novels, Sarah Water's novels, Donna Tartt's The Secret History, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. James Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Of course the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Wilslava Szymborska's poems. Stephen Fry's novels, especially Making History. For Finnish writers: Pirkko Saisio and Johanna Sinisalo are my favourites. Recently, I have been reading and enjoying Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun, J.K. Rowling's A Casual Vacancy, Tove Janssons' Moomin stories and Jonas Gardell's Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar -series (about people with AIDS in Sweden in the 80s). I'm very interested in hearing about your favourite books and authors!

Favourite films: I have seen a lot fewer films than read books... The Man in the Iron Mask is one of my all-time favourites. Wilde, where Stephen Fry plays Oscar Wilde is phenomenal. V for Vendetta, Apollo 13 and The Lord of the Rings movies. I'm quite excited about the Hunger Games movies.

Favourite music: I'm not sure if I have a genre I prefer over all others. Recently I have been listening to Disco Enseble, Gossip, Gogol Bordello, Clann Zú and System of a Down.

What would you like to send/receive?: Letters and postcards! Snail mail, preferably. I can also send (and wouldn't mind receving) samples of tea or candy.

Who would you like to send and receive mail from?: Anyone, really. I'd love to talk to people outside the gender binary, but seriosly, if anyone answers my introduction, I'll be thrilled!

What countries would you like to receive mail from and send to?: Any country.

Anything that you would particularly NOT like to receive?: No, I can't really think of anything, besides the obvious ones, like hate mail or very unkind messages, or sexual content without any negotation about it.

What would be in your dream letter or package?: Well, possibly both a postcard and a letter, filled with your thoughts about literature, music, art, gender, your life and anything you wish to tell me. Perhaps also a bag or a few spoonfuls of your favourite tea for me to sample while reading what you have written.

Anything else you'd like to add?: If you are shy about giving me your home address, we can also exchange emails first! Or I can give you my address first, or we can become FB-friends or anything that makes you comfortable. If you are not into writing long letters, postcardfriends are highly appriciated, too! Contact me here or on my email (sinipiika@outlook.com). Oh, and my journal here is only in Finnish, so although I'd love to read your entries, mine won't make much sense to you if you don't speak Finnish.