About Katie
I am Katie Sutton, a 21 year old girl geek from Manchester. Two years ago, I became desperate for independence and new places to explore and fled to the University of Derby to study Photography.
I have wanderlust and I am the kind of person who genuinely believes they should be able to get caffeine on prescription and an Internet connection implanted in their brain. I am a geek, politically left-wing activist, a secular humanist, bisexual and polyamorous.
When I say I’m a geek, I don’t mean that I bite the heads off live animals or that I spend all my time on my computer: I am a knitter, a bellringer, a bookworm, a Mac user and I love playing board games. A geek, to me, is someone who loves knowledge, is perhaps intelligent, but mostly has passion for what they do. So, I think being a geek is something to be proud of, and I find it incredibly attractive in others. (I am always quick to point out, however, that spending 23 hours a day playing or preparing for RPGs, real life or otherwise, and the other hour on LiveJournal bemoaning your lack of a social life, does not constitute being a geek.)
For a long time, I described my faith as a sort of atheism, with my faith put in myself and other people, and a human’s ability to do The Right Thing morally and ethically. Then, I discovered a group of people who called themselves secular humanists, who’s lifestance was pretty much the same as mine, and as I later pointed out to a friend in a pub somewhere near Euston station, I figured I might as well lump myself with them, since being a lefty bisexual, polyamorous feminist, it was unlikely any other religion would ever have me.
I was politicised by my sexuality, although I am now most involved in the feminist movement. I belive in equality, respect, honesty and transparency, in consensus and democracy, in civil liberties, the right everyone has to education, and much more besides. I’m an independent lefty (but if you insist on putting me in a box, I’ll say I’m a socialist) and I support ENS and the Open Rights Group.
I have believed in ethical non-monogamy since shortly before my 16th birthday, although I only discovered that I wasn’t alone about three years later, talking to someone about relationships when they mentioned the word polyamory and I went to look up what this odd word meant. That conversation changed my life pretty spectacularly: I have two partners, Matt and Marnanel, and I’m very happy. To quote Must Be Tuesday, there’s no such thing as too much love.
You can contact me by email - katie@xugglybug.co.uk - if you want me to elaborate on anything. I like questions.