ABOUT ME

Intense, spontaneous, adventurous, crazy, disquisitive, funny, kind, welcoming, considerate, empathic, and other such things.

Interests

Commons, camping/backpacking, community organizing, social change.

I'm political but I'm not down with party politics, nationalist politics, issue politics or identity politics. If it isn't humanistic and intersectional, it's likely to be oppressive (if nothing else, than by virtue of creating a categorical "self" and "other").

I'm a research fellow that studies radical commons theory and it's applications; so, basically, it grabs my attention, makes my life engaging, and is the greater "expenditure" of my time. It also keeps me broke. Which has it's charms, of course.

I also obsess over mountains and travel, in general.

• culture
• festivals
• modeling
• partying
• politics
• traveling
• backpacking
• camping
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The viral spread of insurrectionary, public commons-seizing, in the Fall of 2011, was simply life-changing. Experiential knowledge of the only theorized and practiced model of material exchange and interpersonal relating that can actually rival the hegemony of neoliberal capitalism. Working together, with mutual respect, honesty, and authenticity - all with common cause, and, yes one demand: CHANGE EVERYTHING - allowed for creative space for experimenting with new ways of relating with each other, beyond monetary value, beyond the discrete sense of time engendered by production and labor, beyond social mores, beyond social roles, all in search for a happier, more authentic, more healthy, more functional way of living in the world.

Summiting El Capitan was pretty insane; the view was incredible, the sun was setting, and I was WHIPPED.

Summitting Mt. Garfield was a personal trial; once at the top, I bummed around up there for over an hour because I didn't want to make the harrowing journey back down, again.

Grand Canyon at Sunrise simply cannot be rivaled.

The ten days I spent with Tea Time at a Rainbow Gathering. I don't really think of myself as too much of a heady or greenie or hippie...and I don't think it's really about that; I mean, subculture and milieu exist there, but, really, it seems to be the largest and most-functional, temporary and spatially-fluid commons I have ever seen or imagined. It makes me want to study international festival culture, through a commons lens.

Seeing Pompeii was pretty spooky; conjured a really palpable sense of the contemporary, in the stream of human historical time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Ghana, Italy, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ghana, United States