Miranda C. Dennis
Class of 2008
This is questionably true about me:
I grew up with an understanding of the history of Alabama, specifically the civil rights movement. In high school I learned to pay attention to how local governments worked, the mistakes the taxpayers made with their taxes (or lack thereof), and the way history still shapes us. This has led me to think long and hard about the series of events that brought my family to Alabama, which allowed me a chance to grow up in a place that was both hostile and welcoming to ideas of change.
It certainly made me interested in activism, in trying to help what I saw was wrong, in improving what was already there. My own history, my state’s history, and my experience as an English/Creative Writing major and Women’s Studies major creates this person who had the responsibility of interviewing another person, a fellow Alabamian. This is important to know: it heavily shapes my interview with Cameron Vowell. I feel like everyone I talk to, everywhere I go, I’m celebrating and critiquing what has for so long made me who I am. Actually, this is very important to know, and that is all I can say about myself.
This much is true about me:
I was born in Los Angeles but raised in Montgomery, Alabama.
- I am right-handed, wear glasses, and freckle easily.
- I was raised by my mother, mostly in apartment complexes and now currently a gray house where the yard needs mowing regularly.
- She is right-handed, wears glasses, but does not freckle easily.
- I have an older sister (the terminology is “half-sister”) who is now serving in the military out in Afghanistan; our family thinks about her daily.
- My sister is right-handed, wears glasses and because she is 1/8th Cherokee, tans easily.
- I love to write, especially love letters of the practical joke variety, and poetry about the weather.
- I love being Southern, although I don’t particularly love the South or its weather.
- I love bulleted lists, but this may be true for only so long.