Samia
My childhood was a little...less-than-loving, shall we say, and as a result I spent way too much time looking for affection and acceptance in all the wrong places. So over the years I developed a talent for *not* speaking my mind as openly as I should have. After a particularly messy breakup with yet another narcissistic asshat, I spent a long while exploring myself.
I've identified as feminist for quite a while, but only recently have I truly come into my own and stopped hiding, avoiding and otherwise squashing my true nature as a feminist, antiracist humanist. There's something about rediscovering activism that makes a person tougher than ever. I've found my voice and am presently very involved on my largely toolish campus.
I'm also extremely dedicated to infiltrating academia and becoming faculty someday. I want to bring down the stale, largely hetero-white-male establishment from the inside by serving as a mentor for members of traditionally marginalized groups who don't necessarily feel that they "belong" in science.
What makes me a Heartless Bitch is the way I've been working the system, making contacts and networking with faculty who are complete idjits when it comes to social skills and "wimmin." I have to be calculating and use these morons as a means to an end. These are the greybeards who will propel me to success and enable me to reach a position of power from which I can usher in a new, diverse generation of scientific rabble-rousers. *wipes single tear from eye*
Country: United States
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