character sketch.

Audrey is this cool punk rocker self righteous feminist woman, who has tattoos all over her biceps and is an active activist, she sits at bake sale tables and sells her free trade brownies just after her advocacy meeting. At least she used to, at twenty-nine it’s a little hard to be the disenfranchised youth. She stands and sways to heavy grungy angry girl music, female Kurt Cobains, male Ani Difrancos, gender-fucking performance artists, she stands on the hardwood and sways and moves and bucks her hips and wants to fight the power, shove fists in the air. but she’s twenty-nine now and they expect her to dress professionally at the work place, but her tattoos peek out and give away her true identity. She is a children’s librarian. She reads these books to little kids and she can see traditional gender roles in these harmless little story books, she sees sexism and racism and heteronormativity but she can’t fight the power here, surrounded by runny noses and grubby hands and protective parents. Why don’t parents want to protect against the most harmful of lies? Women can drive tractors, that’s a given now in any case. Why can’t a man wear a purse or knit or make babies? Opening the minds of seven year olds. She goes home buys concert tickets online and buys some kitchen appliance off of her friends wedding registry because she’s getting married and moving on and Audrey isn’t. Audrey wants to go back to school so she can be one of the thinkers and doers, the movers and shakers.