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dalya

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm a revolutionary, radical activist, Filipina, Jewish, Egyptian, lover, fighter and dreamer. I reside in Olympia, Washington. I recently left my beloved position as director of stonewall youth and am now working at Evergreen as an academic advisor. Times are good. I really like students and I really love working with some elder women of color that show me the way.I love to sing, I'm a high femme diva drag queen. I have two big fluffy black cats with big yellow eyes that wait at the door for me. I love to sit in the sun and be and run in the woods in the rain. I love to cook the food of my ancestors. I believe in freedom for all people. I'm in love with my sweetie and we live on the westside of oly with our cats and a dog and we're building some life dreams together....I've been sober for over three years. I am fierce and passionate and love my friends and my family. I'm committed to healing up and working on my sh*t. I'm committed to loving myself even if I'm a total mess and fucking the myth of perfection and dissatisfaction that capitalism encourages.I'm hella soulful and emotional. I believe in having my feelings and being real and am working on being honest and intimate with folks and showing all of me.

My Interests

I'm interested in performance, in music and dance and singing. I love making collages. I take step aerobics and go jogging once per week. I like being in my body. I'm interested in social justice, in history, in people being authentic and being true to themselves even if it doesn't make sense or look good. I'm interested in people who don't care about being cool. I'm interested in sunsets and beaches. I want to build a home and have lots of animals, I want to be a mom someday soon. I'm interested in ending the war. I'm interested in grad school and want to go and get me a masters sometime soon. I'm interested in peace and compassion and love.

I'd like to meet:

People in their Saturn Return, Holla!!! Sweet people, old friends, folks with fire and passion. Folks who care about the earth and about being alive. Folks who want to work together with creativity and art and rise up and take risks to try new things and to make change happen. People of color, queers, activists, healers, real people, beautiful people, honest people, people who need people, cat people, funny people, playful people, purple people eaters.

Music:

John Legend, Lauren Hill, Tracy Chapman, Gillian Welch, Jill Scott, Mira, some old skool and new skool hip hop and R&B, the Divas: Bette Midler, Barbara Striesand, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, cheesy 80's, Dirty Dancing, Salsa, Marengue, Blue Grass, Folk, Nina Simone, Bob Marley, the new Common album, Dolly Pardon, Black Eyed Peas, my dad's voice, and most soulful crooney love songs.

Movies:

Dream Girls (this is soo f*ing good), the Pursuit of Happiness, Like Water For Chocolate, I like foreign films, documentaries, romantic comedies, and movies that are suspensefull, heart wrenching and uplifiting.

Television:

LOST!!!

Books:

I'm currently reading Way of The Peaceful Warrior, and recently read Woman On The Edge of Time, Clan of the Cave Bear, All About Love, the Artist's Way, Sherman Alexie, Harry Potter books, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, America's In The Heart, and the Flying Camel.

Heroes:

My family of origin, Connie, Leticia, Nelson Mandela, MLK, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, Stonewall Youth, all my brave and fierce friends fighting for freedom, my QPOC community, Anna Schlecht, Rabbi Seth, Brian Creeley, and all the many teachers who have touched my life.