Leah Jane

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Gender Female
Introduction I am an Über-liberal, nerdy, feminist, American-Canadian, secular humanist, skeptical, pansexual, overeducated, intellectual, philosophical, artistically inclined, white-tea drinking, loudmouthed, agnostic, politically correct, mordant, autistic Jewess who likes to draw, write poetry, study languages and smell flowers.
Interests Activism, Aesthetics, Agnosticism, Alliteration, Antiquity, Archaeology, Art History, Asian Cultures, Astronomy, Autism, Biology, Canada, Cats, Chocolate, Disability, Dogs, Dolls, Feminism, Flowers, Horses, Indigenous Cultures, Languages, Linguistics, Marine Biology, Neurodiversity, Painting, Pantheism, Plants, Poetry, Reading, Sociology, Steampunk, Stimming, Writing
Favorite Movies A Little Princess, A Powerful Noise, A Raisin in the Sun, A Woman Is a Woman, Akira Kurosawa's Yume, Autumn Sonata, Barefoot Gen, Batman Returns, Beauty and the Beast, Big Fish, Blue Velvet, Brazil, But I'm a Cheerleader, Castle in the Sky, Children of Men, Children of Paradise, Chinatown, Cohen On The Bridge, Coraline, Corpse Bride, Death At A Funeral, Delicatessen, Dr Strangelove, Edward Scissorhands, Eraserhead, Fantasia, Fiddler on the Roof, Full Monty, Ghost World, Grave of the Fireflies, Harold and Maude, How To Train Your Dragon, Howl's Moving Castle, Ikiru, In America, Into the Wild, Jules and Jim, Kiki's Delivery Service, Kwaidan, La Cité des Enfants Perdus, La Dolce Vita, Le Samorai, Let the Right One In, Lilo & Stitch, Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland, Låt den rätte komma in aka Let the right one in, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Onegin, Pan's Labyrinth, Persepolis, Ponyo, Princess Mononoke, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Ran, Rashomon, Ratatouille, Sansho the Bailiff, Schindler's List, Sleeping Beauty, Some Like It Hot, Spirited Away, Star Wars, Stray Dog, Studio Ghibli, The Elephant Man, The Incredibles, The Iron Giant, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Pianist, The Red Shoes, The Sword in the Stone, The Virgin Spring, The Wages of Fear, Through a Glass Darkly, Tokyo Godfathers, Toy Story, Ugetsu, Vivre sa vie, Whale Rider, Whisper of the Heart, Wild Strawberries, Y Tu Mama Tambien
Favorite Music Antonio Vivaldi, Barenaked Ladies, Flight of the Conchords, Giacomo Puccini, Glenn Gould, Great Big Sea, Gustav Holst, Igor Stravinsky, Itzhak Perlman, Joe Hisaishi, k d lang, Kaizers Orchestra, Leonard Cohen, Lydia Lunch, Mediaeval Baebes, Muse, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Our Lady Peace, Philip Glass, Rasputina, Seiji Ozawa, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Beatles, Tim Minchin, Yann Tiersen, Voltaire
Favorite Books Abe Kobo, Akiko Yosano, Al Franken, Albert Camus, Alexander Pushkin, Anaïs Nin, Anton Chekhov, Art Spiegelman, Astrid Lindgren, Barbara Kingsolver, Beryl Markham, Carl Sagan, Charles Baudelaire, Christine de Pizan, Courtney E Martin, Daniel Tammet, David Suzuki, Derrick Jensen, Edward Said, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George MacDonald, George Orwell, Gustav Herling, Herman Hesse, Herman Melville, Ivan Turgenev, John Lie, Kayano Shigeru, Ken Kesey, Kurt Vonnegut, Lao Tze, Leo Tolstoy, Margaret Atwood, Marjane Satrapi, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Meng-Tze, Michael Chabon, Moliere, Murasaki Shikibu, Natsume Sōseki, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nosaka Akiyuki, Oe Kenzaburo, Oscar Wilde, Pearl S Buck, Primo Levi, Robertson Davies, Ruth L Ozeki, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Sei Shonagon, Shusaku Endo, Simone de Beauvoir, Stieg Larsson, Susan Sontag, Susanna Clarke, T R Reid, Tadeusz Borowski, Tennessee Williams, Toni Morrison, Tove Jansson, Victor Hugo, Virginia Woolf, Voltaire, Yann Martel, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Zhuangzi