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Overview
About Me
I’m a curious, open-minded person who values connection, honesty, and shared experiences. I enjoy meaningful conversations, exploring new neighborhoods, and learning how people live around the world. I’m independent but warm, respectful of shared spaces, and I try to leave places better than I found them.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
I’m on Couchsurfing to experience places through real human connection, not just tourism. I value community, cultural exchange, and staying with people who enjoy sharing stories and perspectives. I’m here to connect respectfully and intentionally.
Interests
• Deep conversations
• Exploring cities on foot
• Personal growth & self-reflection
• Music & storytelling
• Mental health awareness
• Nature walks
• Building community
- cats
- coloring
- movies
- reading
- tv
- music
- hiking
- beaches
- art
- feminism
- queer
- city life
- queer theory
- lgbtq
- decoloniality
Music, Movies, and Books
Music-wise I like a mix—songs that feel honest, a little nostalgic, or emotionally rich.
I enjoy movies that feel human and real, especially character-driven or slightly offbeat films.
I’m drawn to books about personal growth, psychology, and stories that explore identity and relationships.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
I am finishing up my doctorate program and here is my dissertation abstract:
the house of modernity (https://decolonialfutures.net/house-of-modernity-zine/) is on 🔥 and there is no driver at the wheel 🚒
We're'll trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death... Cause ... We thought we were safe. We'd paid to be white. With enough blood and money, anyone can be white. It's always been that way. But the thing about being white is it binds you. Ensorcelles you. It's easy to see **** as cursed, because you've separated | yourself from them. But you don't know... you're enslaved just like they are. Cold whiteness. You're hypothermic. You lose logic. You see the blood... and you think someone else is bleeding. Everyone is screaming at you to turn the machine off, but you can't hear them. You can't even hear yourself saying, "We're cursed, too." ...We're cursed, too
Noetiexpansively* Imbricated within the erotocytonexic-noetiscape, we are at University contemplatively engaging with the lineages and register of disability-qua-decoloniality. Disserting systems of de-coloniosettlerization as they forestall and foreclose apertures of matrixal sentience in the recursive procreation of the project of the huMANchine | we remonstrate in plight, the exiled plexus of the coloniosensorium ... regard this article we wrote (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1925993/1925994), as dendritic ecotones — rhizomaticly dehiscencent in secretokinetic aporia — de-ontogen-ontically demetacosmologize the preconfigured semiomateriodiscursive fabric of anti-blackness (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=331n2m7oanM) that pervades the {Noumenon of the Extranoematic} - (conferatur Sophie Strand, Bayo Akomolafe, Tyson Yunkaporta, Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures, Sylvia Wynter, Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, et cetera).
When not sequestered to (abrahamic)ethnocolonial-anthropocratic relationship with the epistemological industrial complex as a means of navigating the constraints of capitalism, love everything water because ... water sign! Right now really deep diving (paronomasia) into different dihydrogen monoxide modalities (Exempli gratia: thalassotherapy)!
Prefer not to use pronouns and share in confederation with the corporeopolitical sociogenics of transfemMENistic materialism (videlicet Anarkata, Red Voice News, Nsambu Za Suekama, et cetera). Free Palestine! Palestine Lives First! Black Lives First! Indigenous Lives First! Trans Lives First! Disabled Lives First!
*neurocoloniality uses the word “autistic” as anglospheric legibility with the hesperian/occidental psychiatric prison industrial complex.
Websites (edit)
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https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/sick-architecture
https://recursivecolonialism.com/
Teach, Learn, Share
I can share good conversation, emotional intelligence, and being a thoughtful guest.
I’m always eager to learn about different cultures, perspectives, and everyday life in new places. I believe everyone has something valuable to teach.
What I Can Share with Hosts
I’m tidy, considerate, and communicative. I respect boundaries, schedules, and house rules.
I’m happy to help with light chores, share meals or conversation, and bring appreciation and positive energy into the home.
Countries I’ve Visited
United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
United States