Writing this feels like I am standing at a podium wearing a blind fold in front of an empty room.
As you can see I have decided to start writing a blog. If you don’t know me from real life, allow me to give you some information about myself. My name is Grace and I am an undergraduate at the University of Washington working toward a double major in Psychology and GWSS (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies). I love to pet dogs, watch movies, read books, embroider (check out @grandmother.at.heart on instagram), and talk to people. My favorite movie is When Harry Met Sally – my bio on Tinder was “waiter, there is too much pepper on my paprikash” and no one got it. My favorite books of all time are of course the Harry Potter series but another one that has stuck with me is The Book Thief. I like books and movies but people are my main interest if you didn’t gather that from my decided majors. My favorite thing to think about and learn about people is why they are the way they are. I like to consider small-scale, personal factors such as biological predisposition (nature) and the way one was raised (nurture), as well as over-arching societal influences such as gender roles and racism.
This blog will probably consist of Psychology and GWSS topics quite a bit since they are what I am thinking about most, but I plan to also discuss college life, being a woman in Western capitalistic society, being single in the city, and what feminism means to me. If you’re easily spooked by the f-word, don’t worry; this isn’t a radical feminist page and I won’t yell at you. But I may challenge cultural norms and say some things that may furrow some brows.
I don’t really know how to write a blog but I have a lot of thoughts and feelings that I like to share, and while my mother is a gracious and loving woman I know she doesn’t always want to hear it.
So, I’ll share my thoughts and feelings with you all, and I hope you enjoy reading about them.
Love, Grace
P.S. my header image is street art that says “samsonovich” on it. That’s as much credit as I’ve been able to find.
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