User:Vermiculite

I opened an account with an eye towards filling in gaps I perceived in the under-representation of women in science fiction, but immediately ran into conflicts regarding agreement on notability. I could not fathom how certain science fiction authors were intensely scrutinized for notability while others were included with insignificant, unsourced credentials. I chose to pull back and spend some time reading and understanding more of the culture here. Talk page discourse exhausts me rather than invigorate me. I tend to make minor edits unless participating in an edit-a-thon or cleaning citations/sources, or if I have found a particularly neglected area that I understand how to navigate.

About Me

I'm from a WEIRD (White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) society. Specifically, I am:

• from the United States of America (Industrialized, Democratic)
• from the Midwest
• a librarian (Educated)
• descended largely from northern European immigrants (White)
• not personally rich, but nonetheless in the high income group, worldwide (Rich)
• English is my first language

However, I have or have had membership in several marginalized groups:

• I'm queer
• I'm a woman
• I grew up poor
• I am neurodiverse; specifically, I have ADHD
• I have lived over a decade with chronic pain and a mobility disability, though it is improving somewhat. On and off.
• I experienced more than a few adverse childhood experiences, and was raised by a person who had even more severe adverse childhood experiences,

And I have chosen some other things that have led to playing life on a harder mode, to whit:

• I was first-generation college--of a sort; my parents both received degrees before I received mine, each one piecing together bachelor's degrees over decades of night-school; I was the first to attend college as a traditional student at a 4-year university, and it showed.
• While I believe being monogamous is something of an orientation, I have chosen an openly polyamorous life. Which parts of polyamory are inborn and which parts are choice aren't agreed upon.

And some things that are true about me that are merely irregular, some of which are helpful to editing, and some of which are unhelpful, and some of which are unimportant:

• I've worked for the same employer for nearly 30 years
• my hobbies and interests include US copyright law, astronomy, sculpture, history, anthropology, gardening, medieval calligraphy, artist's books
• I have grandchildren older than my youngest child
• I attended one of the top 25 universities in the world (nope, not top 20!)
• I have helped to run several science fiction conventions
• In school, I studied two living languages in addition to English, as well as two dead languages; I have studied several other languages on my own

I think this is all important to understand and acknowledge about myself when participating in the work of this community.

Working on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vermiculite/Samantha_Henderson

Notes to Self

Stole this idea from User:Bacchiad :

To get right into proper cleanup: use the link to the pages with the "cleanup" message at the top, so you don't have to filter through a jillion good articles with a stray { { fact } } tag. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Cleanup