Jenna
I've spent a lifetime fighting the gender and class roles pushed on me
by others. As a result, I've managed to eliminate most of my negative
"southern trailer park trash" proclivities while retaining the positive
ones (which really do exist), developed a destructive capacity for dry
wit, amassed an encyclopedic knowledge of subjects ranging from canine
genetics to early English book-binding techniques to the medicinal
properties of plants, and become a raving radical feminist. In a few
years, I will have brought myself from high school to a Ph.D. without
financial assistance from anyone other than myself and merit-based
scholarships. I take flack from no one, don't ever back down from my
convictions because they aren't polite and ladylike, refuse to engage in
the beauty myth, respect myself and my body, and still know how to have
a great time. I fight tirelessly for the causes I love, and although I
can speak the language of Academia with the best of them, I have never
lost my roots or my ability to street fight. I am red-headed and six
feet tall and not ashamed about either, but I will neither allow those
qualities nor any other physical features to be fetishized if I can help
it, nor to become so important to me that they overshadow what truly
matters about me, namely my brain and indomitable will.
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