I'm a garden coordinator at the Salt Lake City Public Library and I also make body-based art with a couple of queer performance art collectives as well as solo work. I am very active and tend to travel a lot in the winter as my job is seasonal.

My gender identity is very queer/non-binary; I use 'they' pronouns in English, but like both male and female pronouns to be used in languages that do not have a non-binary pronoun.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I use couchsurfing to find local people to stay with in new places because I find connecting with others to be the most gratifying aspect of traveling.

Interests

I've got a lot of ethical 'n' existential questions to do with all my interests. I also like hearing about other peoples interests and learning that there is just so much going on underneath the surface, and far away.

• arts
• fashion
• dancing
• civil rights
• biology
• languages
• linguistics
• intersectionality
• astrology
• space
• performance
• sexuality
• herbalism
• time
• energy
• gender
• somatics
• horticulture

Music, Movies, and Books

Fiction:
Written on the Body by Jeannette Winterson, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, anything by Margaret Atwood, The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee, The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink
Poetry/Prose:
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, The Albertine Workout by Anne Carson (I know I need to read everything else she's written), Don't Let Me Be Lonely and Citizen by Claudia Rankine, Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton
Non-fiction:
The Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway, The Art of Craft by a really wise person whose name I can't remember right now, Composing While Dancing by a lot of people

Music:
Ella Fitzgerald, ABRA, Feist, Mykki Blanco, Caetano Veloso, Princess Nokia, Sylvan Esso, William Basinski, Arthur Russel, Tom Jobim, Karol Conka, Mariah Carey, Gil Scott Heron, Gravy Train, Jun Miyake, Irreversible Entanglements, Bjork, Solange

Movies:
It Follows, all the Austin Powers, Perfume, Grey Gardens, and more that I can't recall right now.

TV Shows:
Orange is the New Black, Broad City, The Andy Griffifth Show

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've attended a Vipassana Meditation course recently at which participants remain silent without communicating with anyone save for the assistant teachers for ten days and meditate for up to ten hours a day. I feel very grateful for that experience and will continue to strive for mindfulness and presence outside of that setting. I hope to attend courses like that on a yearly basis.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can teach you Final Forehead, a card game that is similar to Bridge, but not as complicated, and you put a card on your forehead at the end!

I can also share anatomical/somatic/kinesthetic knowledge.

I feel more like myself when I cook - sauces are my specialty. I like coming up with cocktails, although I'm no bartender or mixologist.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, England, France, Italy

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States