junemoon
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Occupation | Doctoral candidate |
| Location | Berkeley, CA, United States |
| Introduction | The most salient marker in my life begins with my status as a First Generation Korean Adoptee having been adopted in the late 1950’s by White American parents. My adoption has affected my life tremendously in both known and unknown ways. Also prominent in my self-identity is my membership in the Queer community as a bisexual woman. I am currently in a long term committed relationship with a White man. This relationship at various and frequent times both enriches and enrages my life and sensibilities. I am a mother of one adult child, who is the best daughter a mother could ever hope for. She has three children which makes me a Grammie three times over. A change in careers puts me in the category of a non-traditional student and I am in the final year of earning my doctoral degree in clinical psychology. I am currently fulfilling my pre-doctoral internship and writing my dissertation - all with the goal of graduating in the summer of 2008. My career prior to this transition was as a contract paralegal working in civil law. |
| Interests | Myself, reading, adoption issues, garage sales (aka GS'ing), cooking, new agey kind of stuff, daily minutia, my familia, writing - poetry and creative non-fiction, race & class issues, gardening, creating art, walking - especially with loved |
| Favorite movies | Frida, Strangers in Good Company, Little Miss Sunshine, Brokeback Mountain, Murphy's Romance, Sex, Lies & Videotapes, Best of Show |
| Favorite music | I love music of almost any kind but am not good with knowing the names of the artists. I do not appreciate bagpipe or accordian music and can only take small doses of 'old-time' bluegrass music. |
| Favorite books | The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk, anything written by Alice Hoffman, The Paperboy by Pete Dexter, The Language of Blood by Jane Trenka, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, Turning Japanese by David Mura, Yellow Raft on Blue Water by Michael Dorris, and my very own creative non-fiction and poetry |