Amelia Andersdotter

I grew up in Örsundsbro, which is a rather small village outside the beautiful university city of Uppsala, Sweden. As it happened, I chose to perform my higher education at another beautiful university location in Sweden (Lund university) which is some 700 km away from everything I knew from my teens.
I like reading science fiction and have done so more or less since I was nine. I have but dabbled in fantasy and horror, but also thoroughly enjoy alternative history or "magic realism".
Amongst my less practised hobbies are gardening, ornithology and rocket science.
I almost play the violin, and also the piano.

I am parliamentary politically active since 2006, when I joined the Swedish Pirate Party. I was a sympathiser and passive collaborator with various groups before that, but never settled for anything. Up until 2007 my main interest in life was mathematics.
The Pirate Party works with information politics. I like to define that broadly, as anything that has to do with the transfer of knowledge, information, communication or interaction, regardless of whether it's connected to telecommunications, technology or just plain simple transfer of a solar cell or a business tip traded over dinner.
I tend to apply my broad definition mostly as a basis for attacking concrete political issues. The European Parliament handles legislative proposals or policy initiatives. Legislative bills and policies almost always include at least one aspect of information politics that needs to be detected, and often counteracted. When push comes to shove, parliamentary work is all in the details.
Because I was elected Lisbon MEP last year in June, I will eventually end up working with this full time for pay (as opposed to fulltime for free, which I think is a lot more common for a people to do). However, "Lisbon MEP" means its all hinged on the process of implementing the Lisbon Treaty. As of date (Dec 24, 2009), the bureaucracy has still not quite worked out how to perform this in a smooth and clever fashion and so I'm an MEP, existing in registers at the Europarl, but not officially inaugurated. We'll see how that goes and when I get my blue badge (for being able to enter parliament without a guardian).
I'm quite easy to reach, through here or probably through my e-mail.

See alo this French article in Le Monde.