User:Rasax

About this contributor:

Hello, and welcome to my Wiki user page. I am a San Franciscan in my '30s and happily married to my partner of almost seven years. Well, we were technically married until the California Supreme Court invalidated all formerly recognized same-sex marriages in 2004 - a minor detail. I'm working toward a degree in psychology and planning to work with at-risk populations for HIV and domestic violence prevention/intervention, but currently off a semester to focus on tae kwon do while undergoing a series of treatments with Pegylated Alpha Interferon. Academic emphases include LGBTQ studies, women's studies, and ethnic/cultural studies. I work with a local nonprofit doing domestic violence and rape prevention outreach. I am a certified political science tutor and Green Party member.

I've spent most of my life in San Francisco but have lived in various regions throughout Calfornia and Sweden. I speak a variety of languages and have travelled to several countries on three continents (not including North America). Countries I've visited include Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Monaco, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Tahiti and Bora Bora, and, most recently, Brazil.

Additional interests include social justice and politics, environment and ecology, biological anthropology and evolution, feminism and gender issues, and queer equality. This user page will undergo some changes as more info is included.


 * Rasax will be taking a few days off to recover from a lumbar puncture and fluoroscopy but will be back next week when the headaches and nausea have subsided. Rasax 19:20, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will." -- Fredrick Douglass, abolitionist.