About Purtek

Contact: asecretpurtek [at] gmail [dot] com.

I heard there was a secret chord
that David played, and it pleased the Lord
but you don’t really care for music, do you?

(Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah)

Purtek spends all her time trying to find exactly that chord, and this blog is just one of her ways of doing that. It’s a space for building, for working out ideas, for tossing one more voice into the fray. It’s intended to be a generally positive space, because Purtek, troublesome, difficult, loud and annoying though she is, tries to be a generally positive, compassionate person. Sometimes, however, it’s an angry space, because anger is the only response that makes sense.

Purtek is a straight, white, cis-gendered woman in her late twenties. She has managed to get a marriage and divorce under her belt before turning thirty. When not otherwise occupied with trying not to let the world drive her mad, she reads everything she can get her hands on, watches copious amounts of Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Hockey Night in Canada, and laughs.

She lives in Hamilton, Ontario, starts her second Master’s degree in September 2008 (with the hopes of an actual academic career to come) and spends an awful lot of time within the four walls of churches.