siblings, organizing, movement building, healing, writing, resonance, sincerity, risk-taking, building forts, time travel, cryptozoology, nourishment, restlessness, crush-art, prison abolition, anti-war movement, climate justice, anti-gentrification, anti-racism, gender, vision, strategy, learning&doing partners, electricity, heartwood and sapwood, imagination, dreams, reading endlessly, brilliance, dancing, solitude, intimate connections, intuition, making out, good poetry, adventures, experiments, tarot, stories, wanderlust, play.
comrades, kindreds, familiars. late night trouble. the shy & authentic, the fierce & tender. rough & tumble puppy-pal littermates. healers, lovers, fighters. ritual makers. brilliant organizers. visionaries. revolutionaries. scrappy brawls. smarties. beauty seekers. writing dates. artists & collaborators. contact improv/movement/dance playmates. library stow-aways. the seriously romantic. the earnest & sincere. fierce beasts of all sorts.
and my three-month old sibling marc who lives in sichaun province, china.
lately: kimya dawson. the mountain goats. neutral milk hotel. mia. do make say think. cat power, sufjan stevens, iron and wine, ratatat, rilo kiley
pom poko.
can't keep up, so look here: http://www.goodreads.com/profile/beau
lately: jeanette winterson, adrienne rich, marge piercy, marie howe, marilyn hacker, gloria anzaldua, sharon olds, audre lorde, alice walker, muriel rukeyser, louise gluck, francesca lia block, zoe whittall, michelle tea, pablo neruda, federico garcia lorca
other staples: whipping girl, nobody passes, brazen femme, autobiography of assata shakur, i've got the light of freedom: the organizing tradition and the mississippi freedom struggle, the long haul (autobiography of myles horton), pedagogy of the oppressed, globalize liberation, midwest academy: organizing for social change, killing rage, class matters...
all the amazing folks i work and play with.