ABOUT ME

I'm a poet and feminist/queer activist originally from the US.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing & hosting.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed in Saint Louis, Oklahoma City, New York, Chicago, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona, various places in Romania, Budapest and Kraków.

Interests

journaling, poems, queer family, modern & contemporary art, old dresses, owls, windowsill gardens,certain kinds of feminism, footnotes, odd fabrics.

• arts
• poetry
• contemporary art
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• vegan
• gardening
• knitting
• surfing
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Billie Holiday, Gal Costa, Minnie Riperton, Joanna Newsom, M.I.A., Mirah, Le Tigre, Patti Smith, Edith Nylon, the Slits, Yoko Ono, Kate Bush, THEESatisfaction.

Movies: Daisies, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Persepolis, Juliet of the Spirits, Waterlilies.

Books: The Waves, Blood Dazzler, Dictee, Hopscotch, The Autobiography of Red, Moderato Cantabile, Leaves of Grass, Giovanni's Room, Ted Berrigan's sonnets, the poetry of Rimbaud, Gender Trouble, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Fast Speaking Woman, poems by Eileen Myles, Akilah Oliver, Alice Notley anything by Gertrude Stein or Monique Wittig.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

mountains in new mexico

Teach, Learn, Share

I know how to:
knit (and have taught many, many people how)
garden
cook vegetarian & vegan food
make woodcuts, linocuts & silkscreen prints

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Monaco, Poland, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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