It's hard to know where to start...
I'm a poet and an editor. I love music and politics. I ride a Vespa named Astrid. For a long time, I tried to keep my net personas and my "professional self" very separate. I guess that's partly because I'm a fairly 'out there' person.
I am currently working part-time as a tutor/lecturer in Journalism/Editing at the University of Melbourne. I recently completed my MA (Communications) at RMIT on multiple marginal identity negotiation. I also work from time to time as an editor on various projects as part of my freelance company Heliotrope.
From 1999 to 2002, I was the editor of e)mag (in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald), which I loved with a passion. I was very sad to see it close and I curse the circumstances that led to its demise...
I was the Founding Editor of internet.au which is Australia's best selling monthly print Internet magazine published by Next Media (and I'm very excited that my friend Stuart is making it funky again) . I also did a bunch of books, called Rosanne Bersten's little net.guides. I used to work at Australian Macworld magazine as an Assistant Editor before it was incorporated into MacUser.
My interests include french postmodernist feminism, poststructuralist politics (Deleuze, Massumi), feminist and tranny cyberphilosophy (Haraway, Stone), and lots of queer politics. I have eclectic musical tastes with current favourites being upbeat percussion and worldbeat funk, ambient dub, trance and classic goth. I love film of all kinds and film festivals are heaven for me. I watch too much television, including Buffy, e.r., Queer as Folk, CSI and a lot of other embarrassing stuff. I follow my own earth-based spirituality and create rituals to celebrate the seasons with my friends. I love travelling. I am fascinated and challenged by my Jewish heritage and my Ukrainian/Dutch/Hungarian background. I am attracted to tall willowy people with long hair and when I fall in love, I fall hard. Currently, I'm single, but I have various lovers from time to time. I feel guilty that I'm not more involved with struggles to free refugees in this country. I have in the past been obessed with Star Trek, X-files, cyberpunk SF (especially Gibson and Stephenson, but female cyberpunk writers like Cadigan, Baird and McIntyre are pretty kewl too), and role-playing (Warhammer Fantasy and Cyberpunk are favourites, but Vampire and Werewolf are OK).
I had a sexy black cat called Loki who died last year. Now I have a new kitty called Jezebel.
Want to know more?
- Download my resumé
- Read my poetry
- Read the fairy tale I wrote
- Read my Year 2000 rant
- Take a look at my photo albums
- Check out my company, writers' agency, heliotrope
- Download my Honours Research Project, hyperfluidity (5.2Mb Macintosh BinHexed file)
- Download my Master's Thesis (500Kb PDF)
- It's more than 30 years after the May '68 revolution in Paris. Read some inspiring slogans.
- Read what makes me happy
- Read a strange dialogue I had with myself in Prague
Books that have changed my life:
- Virtual Light, by William Gibson
- Snowcrash, by Neal Stephenson
- The Riddlemaster of Hed, by Patricia McKillip
- The Glass Bead Game, by Herman Hess
- A Thousand Plateaus, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
- That Sex which is not One, by Luce Irigaray
Famous people I think are amazingly gorgeous:
- Angelina Jolie (especially with the long black hair...yum!)
- Johnny Depp
- Guinevere Turner
- Antonio Banderas
- Angela Bassett (in Strangedays)
- Winona Ryder
- Nana Visitor (Major Kira)
- Gillian Anderson
- Jodie Foster (of course!)
Favourite movies:
- When Night is Falling
- Three Colours: Blue
- Lord of the Rings
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- Gattaca
- Ghost in the Shell
- Spirited Away
- Strangedays
- Things Behind the Sun
- Memento
- American Beauty
- Nell
- Contact
- Chocolat
- Queen Margot
- The Hunger
- Enemy at the Gates
- The Usual Suspects
- Bring It On
- Edward Scissorhands
- The Breakfast Club
- The Lost Boys
- Too many others to mention