Watching movies, cinematography, photography, learning Final Cut Express and HTML more, traveling, interviewing people, writing, trancedancing with my spirit, meeting people, laughing, live performance, heavy bass and percussion, conga drum lessons... again, spiritual growth and evolution, kindness, generosity, honesty, integrity, justice, nourishment, healing, peace.
Kindred spirits, artists of every type, gorgeous humanity, healers, lovers of beauty, filmmakers, musicians, programmers, poets, collaborators, activists, comedians, editors, cinematographers, writers, photographers, musicians, painters, feminists, experimental video lovers, non-linear thinkers, sometimes heartbroken revolutionaries, beautiful women, men, and folks who don't conform to gender, LGBTSTGNC folks, Africans, producers, adventurers, barterers, curators, customers, teachers, new audiences, translators, transcribers, graphic designers, distributors, prospective funders, old friends, new friends, allies, innovators, only positivity and light.
Eclectic range including: World Music, Hip Hop, Reggae, R&B, NeoSoul and Old School, the Blues, Jazz, Country, Gospel, Salsa, House, Kwaito, Lingala, all African genres, Afro Peruvian, Raggaeton, Classical. More details to come.
No cable right now so when I can: Law and Order, Grey's Anatomy, Food Network, Scrubs, PBS documentaries, Manhattan Neighborhood Network (you never know what might be on!). Anything else? It changes.
Recently have read from: Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Caroline Elkins), Narratives: poems in the tradition of black women (Cheryl Clarke), Kikuyu Folktales (Rose Mwangi), Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred (M. Jacqui Alexander); Passion: Discourses on Blackwomen's Creativity (Maud Sulter); Country of My Skull (Antjie Krog); Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Barbara Smith); Connecting Medium (Dorothea Smartt); Testimonies of Exile (Abena P.A. Busia); This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua); A Burning Hunger: One Family's Struggle Against Apartheid (Linda Schuster); essays on African film theory; various foundation reports' and back issues of The Fader. List changes.
Women of the world, freedom fighters, gender warriors, artists, folks who stand up for what they believe in, unconventional people, vocalizers, dreamers, defenders, los indigenos, community organizers, poets, Mau Mau in us all.