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My journal title and subtitle express my fundamental belief that, in the (translated) words of Sri Sankaracharya, God only is real. The world is unreal. The individual is none other than God. I see life as a quest to realize this unity in co-operation and solidarity with others.

I'm a disabled bisexual woman living in London, England in a friendly, chaotic household of four adults, two teenagers and five assorted companion animals. I'm polyamorous and currently have two romantic partners, neither of whom live with us. Pilgrimage and spirituality are central to my life; I'm currently a dedicant in ADF, but I have practised and learned from a number of different paths in the past and remain grateful to them. I believe that all religions are based on different cultural and individual perceptions and expressions of the same underlying Reality, and I try to behave in a way that honours all the expressions that have made me who I am. Politically, I'm a feminist and way down in the bottom left-hand corner of the Political Compass. Professionally, I am a lawyer with an LLM in human rights and currently do knowledge management and training for a major law firm as well as chairing its Refugee Law Group and one of its LGBT working groups.

For those who know me offline, I have a Google Calendar and keep up-to-date contact details in a locked post here. If you don't currently have access to either of these and think it would be useful if you did, let me know. I check my e-mail regularly at the address in this profile. If there's anything else you want to know about me, just ask. I won't be offended by a polite question, and I will probably answer (but I don't promise!)

My posts here are cross-posted to Livejournal. Public posts are automatically also linked on Twitter and Facebook. I do not cross-post comments, whether I make them on my journal or someone else's.

Most of my icons were made for me by other people. Thanks, guys! If you click on the userpic at the top of this page, you can see a list of all my icons, with the maker's handle where applicable.