My Daughter, Old Souls, New Humans, Childcare, Breastfeeding, Mothering, Baby Sign Language, and Attachment Parenting. Also, radical politics and organizing, visionary feminism, building community, dance parties, fashion, fat activism, slam poetry, great independent film, acupuncture, and artists of all persuasions make me tingle. I enjoy perusing through used bookstores and second-hand clothing shops in search of breath-taking treasures. I find additional delectation in rocking out, making out, making luv, making art, peer-counseling, promoting a love ethic, gazing into outerspace, competitive walking, basking in the glorious sunshine, having adventures, hating on post-modernism, interpretative dancing, discussing important matters over tea, and harnessing the brainpower of the brilliant to implement radical change--or at least have a cool Saturday afternoon or something.
If you think you're inspiring OR you wanna help my garden grow, I definitely want to meet you. Also, I'd like to know: Isabelle Allende, Yayaoi Kusama, and bell hooks. Beyond that, I'm interested in networking with radical folks, peer-counselors, size queens, and consciousness-raising types around the Portland and Honolulu areas. I'd like to connect with other student parents, radical families, and single mamas and their little (or big) ones.
Usually: Classical composers and lullabies. Occasionally: Air, Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Bikini Kill, Bob Dylan, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cat Stevens, Decemberists, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Etta James, Evolutionary Jass Band, Le Tigre, Linus, Little Moments, Little Wings, Louis Armstrong, M.I.A, M. Ward, Menomena, Miles Davis, Neutral Milk Hotel, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Norfolk and Western, The Online Romance, Paul Simon, Postal Service, Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, Sleater Kinney, Stereolab, Tilly and the Wall, Triumph of Lethargy: Skinned Alive to Death, The Unicorns, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I'm also partial to tunes from Portland, Olympia, Hawai'i, and scrappy local scenes.
And the Band Plays On, Baraka, Before Night Falls, Bomb the System, Bowling for Columbine, But I'm A Cheerleader, Chocolat, Clue, Drunken Monkey, Fahrenheit 9/11, Flag Wars, Garden State, Harold and Maude, Harry Potter, Hedwig, If These Walls Could Talk, I ? Huckabees, Kids, The Life Aquatic, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mermaids (w/ Cher), Murder by Death, Nowhere In Africa, Office Space, Pi, Princess Bride, Pumpkin, Requiem for A Dream, Roger and Me, Romeo and Juilet (70s version), Roof Top Sex, Saved!, Singles, Spirited Away, Supersize Me, Waking Life, Walk on Water, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Witches, XX/XY.
Frontline, The News Hour, Charlie Rose, Independent Lens, Wide Angle, America's Next Top Model, Ugly Betty, Arrested Development. But seriously, playing outside is much more fun.
I love books! By bell hooks: Feminism is For Everybody, All About Love, Bone Black, The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love, Ain't I A Woman, Communion, and Teaching To Transgress. By Isabelle Allende: The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune, Of Love and Shadows, Portrait in Sepia, and Paula. Additionally: Ender's Game, The Heart of A Woman, War's Dirty Secret, Rent Girl, Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, The Stranger, The Metamorphosis, Fast Food Nation, Nickel and Dimed, Making Face Making Soul: Haciendo Caras, Orientalism, Hegemony v. Survival, The Phantom Toll Booth, America: The Book, Body Outlaws, Black Feminist Thought, The Westing Game, Dragon Ladies, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Woman Warrior, History of Sexualities, The Things They Carried, Things Fall Apart, No Logo, Catcher in the Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, The Rats of Nimh, Uprooting Racism, Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Theater of the Oppressed, Yell-Oh Girls, Sugar in the Raw, Flowers for Algernon, Go Ask Alice, Drugs Across the Spectrum, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, Amber Brown Is Not A Crayon, Wind in the Willows, Where the Wild Things Are, Encyclopedia Brown, Cherries and Cherry Pits, Excursions in Modern Mathematics, The Baby Book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. My favorite authors include bell hooks, Isabelle Allende, Gloria Anzaldua, and Maya Angelou. I hate Henry Miller and will not be your friend if you approve of him and his "work". I enjoy publications in the genre of Bust, Bitch, and Venus. I ♥ everything about most zines and I have a few of my own floating around (contact me if you're into that kind of thing).
My grandmas, mom, dad, sister, and my darling baby and me.