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| User: | kestrell (1492327) 
Reading in the dark
The Blind Bookworm Blog
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| Name: | Kestrell |
| Website: | BlindBookworm.org |
| Location: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
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| kestrell | @ | livejournal.com (Jabber) |
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| Bio: | A former English lit major turned heretic, I graduated from MIT's masters program in Comparative Media Studies in 2006. I am a disability and technology advocate, a book reviewer for GreenManReview.com, and, absolutely the one thing you should know about me, an omnivorous cyberbibliophile.
Where I got the name Kestrell: It started out as my username but then just became the name by which most of the people I knew called me. I took the name and the spelling from "The Fairie Queen":
The whiles a losell wandring by the way,
One that to bountie neuer cast his mind,
Ne thought of honour euer did assay
His baser brest, but in his kestrell kind
A pleasing vaine of glory vaine did find,
To which his flowing toung, and troublous spright
Gaue him great ayd, and made him more inclind:
He that braue steed there finding ready dight,
Purloynd both steed and speare, and ran away full light.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, Book II
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| Memories: | 84 entries |
| Interests: | 91: accents, accessibility, alan moore, alchemy, algernon blackwood, angela carter, arthur machen, blindness, blues, book reviews, books, christopher marlowe, classic movies, clive barker, comics, convergence culture, cory doctorow, coyote, crip fiction, cyborgs, dark goddesses, disability rights, ebooks, elizabeth hand, etexts, falconry, fanfiction, final girl, gothic, h+, halloween, harry potter, henry jenkins, hermione, history, holly black, horror, horror movies, iambe, jorge luis borges, labyrinths, libraries, library ladders, luminous bodies, media studies, milan kundera, miles vorkosigan, miranda jones, myth, narrative fetishes, neal stephenson, orson welles, paranormal romances, pre-raphaelites, psychogeography, queer, queer theory, raptors, readercon, reading, richard iii, richard thompson, science fiction, science fiction conventions, shakespeare, slings and arrows, slytherins, symbolists, text-to-speech, theatre, tom stoppard, tricksters, umberto eco, universal design, unseelie court, usability, van morrison, vernor vinge, victorian erotica, walter de la mare, washington irving, weird fiction, wers, wheelchair junkie, wild hunt, winter tales, wiscon, wit, witches, ya fantasy, ya fiction |
| Schools: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Cambridge, MA (2004 - present)
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| Friends: |  | 152: | 14theditch, 3diff, 43duckies, abreedapart, accesswatch, alecaustin, alexx_kay, ambasadora, andpuff, angevin2, anomiedysthymia, autopope, azurelunatic, baron_saturday, batwrangler, blackholly, blindgeek, borrisinabox, brighid0704, brisingamen, britishqt13, burninghawk, c1, cabell, cedarlibrarian, chr0me_kitten, ckd, cluegirl, clute, coffeebeanben, coffeeem, crowleycrow, dariusk, dee_cee, deepforestowl, devoken, docbrite, doctorow, eeka13, eldereft, elisem, elizabethbear, ellen_datlow, ellen_kushner, elorie, erik_j_meyer, etana, fabricdragon, falconry, faspellcast, fjm, freerange_snark, goodqueenmeg, gregvaneekhout, greygirlbeast, gyzki, haceldama, hakamadare, herooftheage, hugh_mannity, in_outsider, issendai, james_nicoll, jesse_in_boston, jethrablack, jlassen, jonsinger, joyfulsun, kabell, kablooey64, kbusse, kellysearsmith, kinkmogul, ladysprite, lagaz, laguera25, las, laurliz1186, librisnerd, lizhand, lizsybarite, londo, louise_norlie, luciademedici, madamebuttery, malburns, matociquala, matt_ruff, merrigold, meyerlemon, mina_de_malfois, moria923, mroctober, mssrcrankypants, neadods, negothick, nihilistech, nihilistic_kid, ninebelow, nineweaving, noire, omnifarious, opportunitygrrl, orions_eagle, painless_j, papersky, patrissimo, pjammer, prydera, pseydtonne, queenofhalves, queenofthorns, rabbitorf, ravenna_c_tan, read_alicia, redknight, relby, rickthefightguy, rising_moon, robin_anne_reid, robinmckinley, sakuraigirl, salvador_dalai, sandthistle, saxifrage, sdn, selkiechick, sichling, siderea, skzbrust, souls_adrift, steepholm, stonebender, sunspiral, suricattus, surliminal, susansugarspun, tamarinne, tasha18, teenybuffalo, tesseractive, thegraybook, tikva, tim_pratt, time_freak, timeliebe, truepenny, velvetandlace, vivnow, worshipper, xiphias, yuki_onna |  | 24: | access_open_src, accessfandom, arisia, ax_wound, bard_in_boston, disabled_media, fan_ta_sm, fandebate, freereads, greenman_review, intj, jekyllfanfics, latin, midsummerfest, mit_cms, mitmit, old_english, prof_snape, the_lj_herald, the_serpent_den, theinferior4, throbbingsexgod, tipoftheday, wiscon |  | 39: | aldaily, boingboing_net, escape_pod_cast, eves_alexandria, extratextuals, fangirls_attack, fryblog, gbhhornswaggler, gimpparade, googleblog, henryjenkins, hornbookfeed, igd_access, igda_sexingames, joelonsoftware, leonardonotes, librariandotnet, librivox_new, m_john_harrison, makinglight, mind_hacks, new_scientist, newyorkerfeed, officialgaiman, online_books, pam_noles, piconblog, planet_blind, scalzifeed, sfbc, sharpbrains, tananarivedue, tangent_online, terranova2, the_wildhunt, tinysubversion, tobiasbuckell, torque_control, wilwheaton |
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| Member of: | 26: access_open_src, accessfandom, arisia, ax_wound, bard_in_boston, blind_tec, disabled_media, fan_ta_sm, fandebate, freereads, greenman_review, intj, ipstp, jekyllfanfics, latin, midsummerfest, mit_cms, mitmit, no_pity, old_english, paidmembers, penguicon, prof_snape, the_serpent_den, throbbingsexgod, wiscon |
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