Gender, Social, Economic and Environmental Justice / Wicca-Hinduism-Buddhism / the Goddess in all her forms / radical embroidery / Stitch-n-Bitch / knitting, crocheting, sewing... basically all things DIY and crafty!
I'd like to meet:
“In Nuevo Mexico, when we are born our mother literally gives us the light – 'Da luz,' we say in the language of our Iberian forebears. As soon as our eyes are accustomed to the brilliance, we memorize the features of her face. As we rise to walk upon the earth, we transpose her profile to those first intimate horizons: a house, a road, cottonwoods by a river, a distant line of hills beyond. Because we are human, we see faces in the rocks and clouds. Thus is human love transposed onto landscape. Querer means to want, to desire, to be in a place, with its people. In folk terminology, querencia is a such a place, the center space of desire, the root of belonging and yearning to belong, that vicinity where you first beheld the light. Querencia, in collective terms, is homeland.†- Enrique R. Lamadrid
Music:
Drum and Bass, Deep House (pretty much anything that makes you want to get naked!), Hip Hop, Oakland Hip Hop, African drumming, East Indian, Brazilian jazz, oldskool American jazz, Mahabhakti, classical....all of it!
Movies:
Monsoon Wedding (anything by Mina Nair); Secretary; Amelie; Queens of Comedy; All About My Mother (all of Almodovar's work); We Interrupt this Empire; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised; Hotel Rwanda; Cry of the Snow Lion; CRASH!!!!
Television:
Democracy Now!, Nova, Nature, Will & Grace, Alias and Lost (JJ Abrams is a freakin' genius!)
Books:
Venus and Mother Jones magazines; my most favorite author/activist is Madhu Kishwar; all of bell hooks' books; The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran; anything by Margaret Atwood; anything by Arundhati Roy; Wisdom's Blossoms: Tales of the Saints of India, Poisonwood Bible; anything by Kate Atkinson; Peel My Love Like an Onion & So Far From God by Ana Castillo; Human Stain by Philip Roth; Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi; Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris; Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden; Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang; The Roots of Desire: the myth, meaning and sexual power of red hair by Marion Roach.
Heroes:
Chris P, Jason G, Madhu Kishwar, the Goddess, my sister and my mom
