Personal Information about Bob Broad
In areas other than the scholarly and professional, I maintain a number of identities:
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- life-partner with Julie Hile
- parent of a son and a daughter
- son of Mary Lavery Broad and C. Stuart Broad
- Quaker (member of the Religious Society of Friends)
- guitarist, singer, songwriter, pop-music aficionado, former radio disc jockey
- founder, organizer, and member of the now-defunct Songwriters’ Club of Bloomington-Normal (SCBN)
- environmentalist, peace activist, vegetarian, recycler, composter
- advocate for healthy birth, natural birth, home birth, and midwives
- profeminist and pro-choice male (interested in genuine dialogue with pro-life people)
- pro-gay-rights straight person
- multiculturalist descendant of Anglo-Irish immigrants
- opponent of suffering, poverty, injustice, complacency, arrogance, ignorance, bigotry, and brutality of all kinds
- advocate of democracy of all kinds
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