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About Me

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recovering social worker still very much in the social justice world. writer. not interested in full-time jobs, or ones where i can't wear my pajamas. i move around a lot, usually house-sitting. i live in the catskill mountains right now, but i'll be back in brooklyn soon enough. i'm working on my MFA in creative non-fiction. i want to join the circus, but i need to practice more. i love to travel and have two passports. i like communal living and cooking for others, especially breakfast.
"When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage. In other words, I don't improve; in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable." - John Steinbeck

My Interests

writing, intentional living, circuses, feminism, anti-racism, post-colonial theory, books, other people's diaries, finding the mote in my eye, comic books, acobatics, collecting fetishists, acting up, movement, living in new places, living, places, the intersection of revolution and evolution (as well as each as a seperate entity), queer youth movements, program design, biology, cooking

I'd like to meet:

i don't really care about who i meet; i meet a million people a day in this city. i care about the people for whom i make space, and the ones that make space for me. i want to be in your life, not to bounce off you like a pinball.though i do love the word ricochet.

Music:

iron & wine, zap mama, nick drake, nina simone, leela james, blossom dearie, magnetic fields, ani difranco, two gallants, elliott smith, billie holiday, missy elliott, rage against the machine, madeleine peyroux, mum, massive attack, jay-z, arrested development, tori amos, antony and the johnsons, gillian welch, mindy smith, prince, mike jones (stripper hoes!),

Movies:

1900, madame sata, all horror movies, brokeback mountain, hillary and jackie, all about eve, firefly, session 9, series 7, casablanca, blade trinity, clue, psycho beach party, double indemnity, empire records, the dreamers, requiem for a dream

Television:

how about this, things i want to learn: carpentry, glass blowing, paper making, acrobatics, ASL, pastry making, fire breathing, bird handling and care, puppet making.

Books:

loving in the war years (lo que nunca paso por sus labios), house of spirits, the time traveler's wife, e.e. cummings, racing justice / engendering power, gender outlaw, adrienne rich, geek love, perks of being a wallflower, don't sleep with your drummer, this bridge called my back, girl in landscape, consider the lobster, naked, the war between the pitiful teachers and the splendid kids, graphic novels, history of sexuality, written on the body, close to the knives, english is broken here, song of solomon, the trouble with normal, the bone people, i claudius, the song of ice and fire, handmaid's tale

Heroes:

things i love: children, feeding people, conscious living, taking the power back, making change, growing things, 2 cent stamps, buses, fireplaces, fingerless gloves, the circus, hands, people who can build things, families of blood and choice, slow lorises, writing letters, road trips, taking the long way, diaries, electric eels, games, wrestling in pools, cuddling, big dogs, fall, long underwear, the chrystler building, infiltrating, the view of manhattan from the Q train, irish accents, dark chocolate, mango, pomegranate.