Lynne Marie Wanamaker is an anti-violence educator, a writer, a graduate student, a lay-preacher and a mama. She lives with her wife and daughter in an old house in New England. She identifies as a cisgendered white queer of working class origin and is grateful to Autostraddle for helping her rock a fluid gender presentation. Lynne Marie writes about self defense at Ms. Fit: Real World Feminist Fitness and is the lead author of the Say Something Superhero Field Guide: A Manual for Eliminating Interpersonal Violence. Find her at www.lmwsafe.com.