Livre d'Or

Identity: I'm 31 years old, and I'm a biologist. I work as a university lecturer, teaching science to medical students and doing cancer research. I come from England originally, and recently moved back here after some years in Sweden and Scotland before that. I'm a Reform Jew and very much involved in Jewish community stuff. I'm a huge extrovert and known for talking a lot.

Passions: I love reading, books (which I review here), blog articles, whatever I can get my hands on really. I'm committed to pluralism and multiculturalism, which means both that I like interacting with people with different views and backgrounds to my own, and that I care about making society more just towards minority and disfavoured groups. I am very much driven by curiosity; there's nothing I love more than learning new things.

Dreamwidth use: I try to post two or three times a week, though a lot of that is either book reviews or 'what I did on my weekend', with occasional more thoughtful, essay-style posts. I love having detailed conversations about any topic, and keeping discussions alive after that first day or so when posts are on the first page of reading lists.

Recent post: I love living in the future

One of my rare thoughtful essays: Defend to the death your right to say it

Journals you might want to read:

piranha posts gorgeous gorgeous pictures and occasional thoughtful comment.

auntysarah has the most wonderfully acerbic writing style, and talks about snakes, climbing and trans politics.

hatam_soferet is one of my best friends, but she's also a really witty and interesting writer, talking about her life as an English ex-pat in New York, working as a traditional scribe who writes Torah scrolls and other sacred writing by hand.