User:Violet S. Truth

I am a mom who is in her late thirties. I have an amazingly smart and handsome middle schooler who is interested in statistics, particularly those having to do with football and other American sports. I am single though I spend time with my ex husband. I graduated from UNH years back with a a BA in Honors English. I was mostly interested in how rural poverty is portrayed in literary fiction, concentrating on the New England region. Though I received a grant to research this, I was never published. Today, the issues that intrigue me most deeply are: homeschooling, unschooling, and other conversations about education and its various modes and forms (I am not a believer in high stakes testing and prescriptive teaching, etc.); pro choice law-- its changing legislation and its constant undermining by deluded, conservative policy makers and politicians; the fictitious war on drugs-- one of the greatest thieves of our privacy, constitutional rights, money, and integrity. i am convinced that our country chose to capitalize on others' misfortune, sending them on a downward spiral into 12 step idiocity and ridiculously corrupt drug courts. I am interested in the rights of drug addicts and the notion of drug users' unions. I believe outlawing the use of "illegal" and "legal" drugs is, quite frankly, illegal and hinges on the criminal. I feel that many of us walk around believing falsely that we are free, while in truth we are jailed in prisons of conservatism and misinformation. Though I take serious conspiracy theorists with a grain of salt, feeling that their creators are sometimes too unacademic and glib, I do listen to them to a certain extent, feeling that their reasoning comes from a rational place, and is a reaction to a deeply unjust manipulative system.

I still believe and hope, deeply, that the truth is out there.