Salve!

Hello Feministe readers!  My name is Jamelle and – thanks to Jill’s generosity – I’ll be guest-blogging here for the next two weeks.  I’m not particularly good at writing extended descriptions of myself (they always turn out really stilted), but here goes:

I’m a fourth-year (yes, that’s the terminology we use) at the University of Virginia, majoring in Political & Social Thought and government.  I’m involved in a pretty fair range of activities at the University, but for the moment, that’s not terribly important.  What’s more relevant, I suppose, are my internet activities.  I normally blog at The United States of Jamerica with two close friends – takahe83 and protogoras – and occasionally contribute to the blog PostBourgie.  The vast majority of my blogging has to do with politics: from shallow stuff concerning the ‘horse race” to more deeper takes on various issues and concerns in American politics.  Occasionally though, I’ll blog about music, cartoons, and other nerdy things.

I blog mostly from a center-left perspective (putting me pretty close to the Democratic Party on most issues) and though I’m not an explicitly feminist blogger, I do consider myself a feminist (or a feminist ally, either one works), and I work hard – as a dude – to make sure my blog is “feminist friendly.”  You can expect my writing here at Feministe to be similar to my writing at my blog, so with that said, I hope you enjoy it.