laughing//loving//LIVING//social justice//everything queer//feminism//anti-racism//anti-war//disability rights//fierce femme women//gender fuckers//stompy black boots//monarch butterflies//tattoos//new york city, especially brooklyn and its purple nights, fire escapes, and perched rooftops//letting go//a lesson in all things//stripped inhibition//booksbooksbooks//writing, scribbling below the yellow moon//art//my violin//learning guitar//music as a first language//the blue half hour//healing//herbal medicine//energetic medicine//spiritual growth//yoga//playful dance of light and shadow//unconditional love//my kitten-babies//poetry as bread and breath//happy green alive things//quiet darkness//true friends//small moments//beauty is right here//living inside breath//acceptance//the blackest night//thunderstorm explosions, torrents in sheets//second chances//third chances//chronic illness//chronic lyme disease and kicking its ass//never giving up.
queer/genderqueer/activisty people. quiet, introspective, healing-focused people. those who know firsthand the precious fragility of life. rumi. alice walker. partners in frolicking & reverie. wide open wails. wide open hearts. dreamers, creators, shifters, magic makers, spelunkers, kin.
ani difranco, melissa ferrick, natalia zukerman, pamela means, tori amos, nina simone, janis joplin, bjork, pj harvey, meshell ndegeocello, girlyman, ellis, billie holiday, miles davis, ella fitzgerald, stephane grappelli, johnny cash, gillian welch, edie carey, jonatha brooke, vicki genfan, stravinsky, bach, brahms, shostakovich, prokofiev, ravel, mozart, late beethoven, bartok, correo aereo, klesmer music, middle eastern music, world music of all kinds, bob marley, crooked still, andrew bird, mark o'connor, sweet honey in the rock, toshi reagon, jacqueline dupre, nadja salerno-sonnenberg, zap mama, susana baca, aretha franklin, patti smith, erika luckett, natacha atlas, evelyn glennie, bobby mcferrin, patty griffin, patty larkin, the dresden dolls, amanda palmer, regina spektor, dayna kurtz, india.arie, erykah badu, lauryn hill, le tigre, indigo girls, the cure, joni mitchell, doria roberts, noe venable, bitch, antibalas, my awesome friend apryl electra, and i'm sure there's more..
dancer in the dark, the piano, but i'm a cheerleader, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, bowling for columbine, sicko, lost and delirious, the red violin, bamboozled, amelie, life and debt, waking life, amandla!.
the l word. six feet under. grey's anatomy.
one hundred years of solitude, by gabriel garcia marquez; everything by audre lorde; jeanette winterson; michelle tea; alice walker; danzy senna; francesca lia block; anais nin; toni morrison; the secret life of bees, sue monk kidd; a people's history of the united states, howard zinn; this bridge called my back: writings by radical women of color; the alchemy of illness, by kat duff; everything by bell hooks; invisible man, by ralph ellison; the house on mango street, by sandra cisneros; borderlands, la frontera, by gloria anzaldua; also hannah arendt, noam chomsky, michel foucault; gender/queer theory, esp. leslie feinberg and kate bornstein; dorothy allison; peggy munson; james baldwin; poetry by lucille clifton, adrienne rich, audre lorde, pablo neruda, mary oliver, chrystos, nikki giovanni, saul williams, sekou sundiata, sarah jones, lenelle moise, marty mcconnell, rachel mckibbens, anne sexton, marie howe, jeffrey macdaniel, alice walker, naomi shihab-nye, roger bonair-agard, andrea gibson, margaret atwood, marge piercy, e.e. cummings; tons more. mmmmm, books!
mostly this amazing girl (liberty rebekah):also, mary west, my amazing childhood violin teacher. audre lorde. sojourner truth. angela davis. alice walker. inga muscio. leslie feinberg. assata shakur. frida kahlo. bell hooks. arundhati roy. everyone who never gives up on hope. people surviving the everyday with chronic illness and/or pain. dr. charles ray jones , dedicated and loving warrior healer, the only practicing Lyme pediatrician in the country.