Doof Of The Week: Ellie Nash

So here's our first Doof Of The Week!! Meet our cousin Ellie Nash and learn a little bit more about her and how amazing she is :)))

What are you listening to/reading/watching right now?

Hi! Sorry about the lateness on this, I've just been busy with school

and volleyball and probation and everything like that.

Okay so:

I'm a super pretentious cinephile, I'm currently working through a

list I've compiled of some of the best movies editorially, with

Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Quentin Tarantino frequenting

it. But I'm also a completely clichèd white girl. I love Pretty Little

Liars, I know there's no depth to it, the acting's not great, and the

production value's pretty low, but I'm four seasons in. I would

literally give up my two fingers off of my right hand and my

bellybutton (I've put a lot of thought into the value of this) to find

out who A is. I haven't been great on reading lately, I really do love

it, but I don't have the persistence to follow through most of the

time. I say I'm reading The Great Gatsby, but I honestly have been for

the past two months and I'm really not getting anywhere. I do listen

to a few podcasts, a bunch of NPR ones, like Snap Judgement, Planet

Money, and Freakonomics. I also just realized you weren't asking about

podcasts, because who else honestly listens to podcasts? Music-wise, I

mostly listen to older music, with a bit of newer alternative mixed

in; I love Pink Floyd, Rilo Kiley's amazing, I enjoy the Kinks, the

Zombies are up there, Lou Reed during and after Velvet Underground's

fantastic, and I like They Might Be Giants too.

Why do you think we chose you for doof of the week?

Out of curiosity, I googled the definition of the word "doof", and,

apparently, it's an outdoor dance party in Australia. I can't dance

and have been to very few parties, but I can relate to that on a

spiritual level.

Online fixation?

For the most part, most of my online interaction is through Youtube or

Instagram. I am subscribed to SO many Youtube channels at this point.

Just a ton of vloggers, and movie channels, and (you may not be able

to tell it by my normal attire of jeans and a t-shirt) beauty

channels, and all 20 Buzzfeed channels, and a bunch of feminist

accounts and everything. On Instagram though, I habitually follow the

#feminist and the #conservative tags, if you're ever bored, I promise

you that the latter tag will entertain you to no end, until you

realize that people actually believe those things, then it may depress

you.

Latest discovery?

There's a store on the outskirts of Kirkwood, Rung, with a ton of

excess women's department store clothing for really cheap and it's

beautiful.

Muses?

I've really become pretty lax on my contributing back to the creative

community, mostly just binging all of the things that everyone else

makes. I do still write a lot, but it's mostly therapeutic and fueled

by my personal experiences.

How do you describe yourself?

Throughout 6th grade, I had a title that I wrote on all of my papers,

I may be paraphrasing a bit here, but it was something along the lines

of "Bringer of Hope, Savior of Humanity, Tree Rights Activist, Test

Tube Baby Gone Wrong, and Bearer of Inconsistent Titles".

Secret skill?

Do you know the lipstick trick from The Breakfast Club? Where she does

her lipstick by holding it between her boobs? Well I can't do that

since I don't have boobs yet, but I'm working on it.

Sartorial signature?

For the most part, my wardrobe is pretty drab, though I've always been

able to express myself through my socks. Despite being the only person

who actually sees them since I wear jeans, I don't actually own any

normal socks. All of my socks are long and bright and colorful with

some level of design or branding. Even the PJs I'm wearing currently

include orange fuzzy socks (that essentially look like I'm wearing the

Lorax on my feet).

What do you stand for?

In this order, equality, freedom, the superiority of the fourth Harry

Potter, tolerance, empathy, and Netflix making Arrested Development

season 5.

What's your take on Feminism?

Feminism is described on so many levels at this point, to me though,

it's mostly an idea as much as a movement. I am definitely a hardcore

feminist. No matter what people say, sexism is widely prevalent in

today's society. One of the most obvious examples of this is the wage

gap. On average, women do make 79% of what a man makes, this has been

proven, and while it may not be from direct discrimination (about 7 or

8 cents per dollar is), it exists. While this bothers me, it isn't as

much of a deep concern to me, it is something that can be fought,

simply by encouraging girls more, by attempting to remove as much of

the systematic oppression and prejudices that force women into lower

paying jobs, there is a path to overcoming this. What terrifies me is

the fact that people deny the existence wage gap, that people actually

do consciously view women as inferior, which is absolutely wrong. I

may be writing this at one in the morning and may not be in my most

articulate state, but I will forever support feminism, and it's

something that is widely misconstrued. All around the world, including

first world countries, women are oppressed, and it needs to be fought.

Quote that you live by?

 "I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to

prove it doesn’t exist." -Tina Fey

Anything else you want to talk about or add?

It doesn't matter to me if you want to include this for your readers

or not, but my whole life has become pretty convoluted by this point,

so I'm really not sure how much you, Maggie, and Molly know. For

nearly a year-and-a-half now, I've identified as transgender and go by

Ellie, and I definitely want you three to know since I do love you

guys and feel really comfortable around you, plus it would probably

help add context to a few of my answers.

I'm honestly honored to be Doof of the Week, I've actually added it to

the resumè I'm making in English class, so thanks!

Love ya'

ur cuz, Ellie Nash, Bringer of Hope and Savior of Humanity, yada yada

yada yaba daba doo. Amen. Bet you love reading my one a.m. writing.

Thanks Ellie for answering our questions and being the coolest cousin ever! <333 Look out for our next Doof Of The Week, an equally cool person.. coming next week :)