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Bekezela

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About Me

I have a creative spirit inside of me and I am trying to find space and courage in this life to live out my passion. So that was the challenge, to find the time, because what I understand completely is that you – in order to invite any kind of guest, including creativity, you have to make room for it. I learned partly through meditation, which I have done for many years, that you can really clear yourself of so much that's extraneous to your purpose in life, so that there is room for what is important to your spirit, something that has to be given space and something that has to be given voice. - Alice WalkerI am claiming the space I deserve in this world. There is room for all of us at the TOP!I'm a queer Trinidadian woman meaning i like hummus and tortilla chips for snacks at any time of the day! ......i'm amicable and picky, patient and impatient. moody and easy going all at the same time. I'm endearingly odd. I decided that i am pleasantly plump. curvaceous. smart. I enjoy good food, women, bois, boys( to look at sometimes), music, dancing, going to parties, reading. sometimes i'm selfish,( as we all are)... more than often i'm generous...I've fallen in love with messing with people's ideas of gender and "normality".I try to live my life by the honesty and bravery policy!I desire good conversation, kind connections and reciprocityNever let someone else be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.Believe that this world is redeemable, changeable; that we can eradicate poverty, that we can eradicate alienation, that we can eradicate this tremendous consumerism, this disease that we have to buy everything that exists, everything that the television says we have to have.-assata shakurlesbianism is natural while compulsory heterosexuality is the political institution, and that it is only the latter, and not the former, that requires deconstruction - rich

My Interests

music, dancing (shakin my boooty), social justice ( maybe i should have put that before shaking my booty), empowering people of color, lgbt rights, reading books, movies, writing, hanging out, the arts, good conversation, people who resist, women who love women, laughter, odd folks, spoken word, bois, action, fucking with gender

I'd like to meet:

you.. laughers, queer people, dancers, artists, painters, singers, writers, poets, people who resist, women, bois,drag kings,MCs and FEMCs alike, kind folks, someone to read poems to.

Music:

Meshell Ndegeocello, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Angelique Kidjo, Bob Marley, Billy Joel, Common, OutKast (spottieodiedopalicious angel .. looking for u), Sarah M, Indigo girls, Toshi reagon, faithless, le tigre, the Butchies, Mary J. Blige, Floetry, Sergio Mendes, Militant, David Rudder, Beres Hammond, Cee-lo ,Triflin ass music sometimes cuz the beats are off the hook, for example .. Some cut! lol Alison Hinds, Machel Montano ... , A Tribe Called Quest, Amel Larrieux, Al Green, Mos Def, Reggae, Dancehall, Calypso, Soca, Hip Hop, Congolese, West African Dance Music, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Coldplay, Dead Prez, Zap Mama, Billie, ELLA, NINA SIMONE.. ... so much more...

Movies:

gattaca, desperate living, better than chocolate, tipping the velvet, stranger inside, watermelon woman, just one of the guys, circle of friends, set it off, goonies, seven minutes in heaven, joy luck club, house of flying daggers, hero, dancehall queen, the color purple, coming to america, the dinner game, boys don't cry, love and basketball, but i'm a cheerleader, high art, get real, dead poets society, welcome to the dollhouse, the omen ( all of them), the notebook ( yea i like that romantic gooeyness)..i probably forgot something..

Television:

love VH1 Soul, boondocks, living single, the simpsons, southpark, saved by the bell, umm good weather reports??...especially since i am in pittsburgh.

Books:

Annie John, Written on the Body, The Miseducation of the Negro, Sula, Beloved, A lesson before Dying, Zami: A new spelling of my name, 1984, animal farm, To kill a mockingbird, Macbeth, brave new world, boy wives female husbands : a study of african homosexualities, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, August Wilson's plays.. so much more i love reading

Heroes:

my mother, my father, my two brothers, queen hapshetsut, audre lorde, angela davis, james baldwin, bayard rustin, fannie lou hamer, ella baker, harriet tubman, sojourner truth, stacey ann chin, meshell ndegeocello

My Blog

feel like going on

though trials come..... on every hand....i feel like going on i feel like pressing my way .... though trials come ... on every hand... i feel like pressing my wayi do feel like going on. i am just goi...
Posted by Bekezela on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:50:00 PST

Interesting signage... what do you think,...

Your Rising Sign is ScorpioYou're so intense and passionate - you're on fire!You want to be an angel or a devil... you can't decide which.No wonder you seem moody and even a little dangerious.You've g...
Posted by Bekezela on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:28:00 PST

Soundtrack of my life

Opening Credits:Stay Cool - the RootsWaking Up:Okan Bale- Angelique KidjoFirst Day At School:Guns Are Drawn  the Roots Falling In Love:More Justice  Damian Marley Losing Virginity:Will you Remember ...
Posted by Bekezela on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:54:00 PST

I’m in the Post Gazette

Hey check me out. This is about some of me and my fellow Public Allies. - nicehttp://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07226/809252-85.stmI guess I am capable and moving forward as well. Lots of love in the new...
Posted by Bekezela on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:59:00 PST

what it really is.

i'm just a soul whose intentions are good. oh lord please don't let me be misunderstood. quite possibly the most applicable lyric off all time to my life at this point. i just want to love and i just ...
Posted by Bekezela on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:11:00 PST

here in pittsburgh

i am here in pittsburgh with three rivers and an infinite amount of bridges to cross where i can smell the scent of the steel backs of women who love in this place with no way to cross a bridgeto ano...
Posted by Bekezela on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 12:47:00 PST

be that truth.

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. --James Baldwin"
Posted by Bekezela on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:02:00 PST

random

call me when you want me to come.. i'll be around.. cee-lo is the truth.. i want to dance and flirt and kiss and swoon, but nothing more.. i feel like i don't have a lot of time these days.. maybe if ...
Posted by Bekezela on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:23:00 PST

its raining and it's beautiful

sing it out ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i never meant to cause you trouble.. last night was sweet and lonely and cleva .. cuz  we can be so cleva. sometimes.... somtimes i wish i was somewhere else.. but i...
Posted by Bekezela on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:37:00 PST

this morning a dj saved my life

i will love again by lara fabian the tp2k mix..i say goddamn.. i didn't know it  would feel so good in the morning.. much love to the dance mix!!!!
Posted by Bekezela on Thu, 11 May 2006 05:28:00 PST