Hi,

**I am maybe accepting guests - my place is v small and I am usually quite busy so it depends on the timing and who is requesting, and cannot host for more than 1 day usually. Requests at short notice I'm usually not going to have time to respond and plan for, give me a week's notice or more and I'll try and get back to you. Non cis-men preferred**

I hail from London but am proud to have called Scotland home since 2010.

I live with my partner, Louie, and our cat, Buster, in a 3rd floor tenement flat (up 6 flights of stairs) overlooking a wee park full of giant ash trees.

We live in Govanhill, a busy area with a great park (Queens Park) and loads of different food shops (South asian, Eastern European), bars and (too many) cafes and restaurants. I'm happy to live in the queer hotspot of Glasgow, the most multicultural area in Scotland, and Roma capital of the UK!

I work as a freelance cycle instructor, teaching people how to ride bikes :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I couchsurfed a bit in the past, but forgot about it in the last few years as life got settled. I am returning to couchsurfing to regain connection with the international community, meet new people, see a new place with a local guide, maybe do some hosting for the first time!

Interests

Singing, making and watching music, friends, poetry, literature, art, anticapitalism, wealth redistribution, history, building community, (queer) joy, cooperatives, libraries, writing, drinking tea, sunbathing, wild swimming, cats, cycling, dancing, traumawork and therapies, bodywork, transformative justice, abolition, human beings!, and how they live, their relationships, how their bodies and minds work, antiracism, social justice, climate justice, mutual aid, socialism, anarchism, food growing, nature, trees, learning the names of plants and birds, intersectional feminism, fashion, haircuts, badminton, playing drums, playing guitar, synthesisers, radio, watching movies, TV, silliness, memes, revolution!

Music, Movies, and Books

Song of the moment: caroline polachek - ocean of tears

Music: I love mica levi, tirzah, kate bush, frank ocean, björk, dolly parton, kae tempest, richard dawson, lankum, abba, beegees, miles davis, arthur russell, martha, karen dalton, erykah badu, outkast, the watersons, tuung, mountain man, joni mitchell, burt bacharach, rihanna, princess nokia, cardi b, nadia rose, little simz, radiohead, caroline polachek.

Films and TV: Recently I have loved the gallows pole, severance, the bear, ogmios school of zen motoring, soupy norman, tony erdmann, midsommar, parasite, bacurau, bait, steve mcqueen's small axe series, atlanta, ava duvernay's 13th documentary, landless and breakwater - both brazilian documentaries, blackpower mixtapes, i am not your negro, concerning violence, 1500 and counting - documentary about police brutality in UK. Old faves: the florida project, the wicker man, withnail and i, a knight's tale, nuts in may, baz luhrmann's romeo + juliet, veep, the thick of it, mad men, the wire, twin peaks, rupaul's drag race.

Writers/books: kae tempest, tove jansson, eileen myles, kris kraus, audre lorde, adrienne maree brown, reni eddo lodge, clementine morrigan, riddley walker by russell hoban, virus by linda stupart. Currently reading: The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got It by Andy Wightman, Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall trilogy, Chav Solidarity by D. Hunter and Natives by Akala.

Podcasts: Love the Blindboy podcast, Surviving Society podcast, Finding Our Way with Prentis Hemphill, Emergent Strategy podcast with adrienne maree brown, the Veg grower podcast, Ear Hustle, Switched on Pop, Lion's Roar, Fire Draw Near, Nightfolk in the Afternoon, Kathy Burke Where there's a Will there's a Wake...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Formed a band and wrote some songs!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Could cook you a nice vegetarian or vegan meal. (I eat meat but eat veggie a lot of the time too)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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