New life

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Island!

After more than a year of slowly fading and almost dying, I decided to start this blog again, but to completely reorganise it.

A bit of background first. A few years back, I was in the Ukraine and I had a hopeless crush that was gnawing at me.

At the time I was writing a diary, and I wrote a lot of letters to this person, some of which I even sent, about all the things that were happening to me in the Ukraine.

After a lot of thought, I decided that all that stuff should not have stayed in my diary, and that it wasn’t really worth it to send the letters off anyway, so I decided to start blogging.

I created an identity, Ewa Munchkin, to sign my blog, and started off. Evil Munchkin was one of the many nicknames that were given to me - I had all sorts: dwarf, evil dwarf, Gollum, hobbit, smurf, smurfette… yep, you guessed right, I’m short. Not an actual dwarf at 5ft1, but still shorter than average. I happened to like Munchkin more than all the other names, so I added a first name with a Slavonic feel (after all, I was in the Ukraine, and I’m a Russian major. Yes, I know Ewa is Polish, but I happen to also speak a little Polish).

Now loads of things happened to me in the past year, and my blog was more or less abandoned. Not that many people were really reading it, aside from the memes I started doing after a while.

As I decided to start it again, I realised I needed a clearer focus, so I came to the conclusion I needed TWO blogs.

I started a new one, entirely dedicated to Buddhism, and I decided to reboot this one with a much clearer focus.

The focus of this blog is going to be lesbianism, especially lesbianism in popular culture (mostly books, movies and music). After realising I was gay, I spent the first year out of my own closet in ex communist, homophobic countries where the only access I had to anything remotely lesbian was popular culture, and considering I start off as a literature scholar, I basically approached this topic with the same rigour I would apply to any literary research. So I will periodically write reviews and opinions on anything lesbian I discover.

I will also do lots of memes, just because I like them a lot!

I will add a disclaimer: there will be a lot, and I mean a lot, of random faffing about literature. No, I'm not trying to show off (ok, maybe a little), it's just second nature to me, and I have very few people I can actually talk to about these things, so I need some place to get it out of my system! ^^