I am a student at Quest University Canada, an innovative, relatively new university in Squamish BC.

My Question (an equivalent to my thesis, or major/minor) for my degree is "How do we reinvent the wheel?"
Ursula Le Guin essentialized what I mean by this when she said "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."

As my final project I created a series of workshops for men to discuss the prompt "How do we reinvent masculinity?"

I dabble in many handy crafts such as knitting, crocheting to carving, blacksmithing, shoe making, fermenting and brewing!

I spent 10 months in Thailand with Rotary Youth Exchange, living with host families and going to school.

I participated in a 10 day silent Vipassana meditation, also in Thailand.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am a huge believer in gift economy and exchanges in place of cold, dead monetary transactions. Couchsurfing is an organization that places community over economy and abundance over scarcity, and I'd love to take part in that movement!

Interests

• lgbt rights
• education
• beer
• reading
• woodworking
• craft beer
• feminism
• queer
• sharing economy
• decolonization
• brewing
• gayfriendly
• fermentation
• blacksmithing
• intersectional feminism
• carving
• black lives matter
• eco-feminism
• transfriendly

Music, Movies, and Books

Woman on the Edge of Time, Marge Piercy.
Starhawk
Wheel of Time Series, Robert Jordan
The Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire

What I Can Share with Hosts

Engaged listening, critical discussion, technical know-how, physical labour, general craftiness, dry and witty humour. Ask me :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, South Korea, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Thailand