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Overview

  • 7 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Chinese, Hindi, Italian
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Social Entrepreneur, Student and anarchist
  • Masters student in International development and relation...
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About Me

Currently living in Shanghai for afew months, so not accepting guests right now, look up Pierre-Élie Hupé, same appartment, great people, you should definitely couchsurf there.

CURRENT MISSION

Social justice, by any means necessary.

ABOUT ME

I'm a militant anarchist, social entrepreneur and radical pro-feminist, my main passion in life is promoting social justice, gender and ethnic equality. I have strong convictions but also a very open mind except towards people who are racist, sexist, etc.
Smash patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism and the State!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Great way to meet all sorts of people, or start making friends when you mobe somewhere new, and locals too, not just other expats, which is an entirely different experience altogether from the hostel scene.

Interests

I suppose theree's not much originality to it but I love travelling most, very politically active although not at all into party politics, rock climbing, running, partying, sex drugs and rock'n'roll, reading and now slacklining.

  • running
  • working out
  • gyms
  • partying
  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • bouldering
  • rock climbing
  • entrepreneurship
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • social justice
  • activism
  • anarchism
  • unions

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen to pretty much all types of musics, for the rest I try to be open minded as much as possible, mostly go through phases 4 books and movies.
Monty Python movies for comedy, love Ken Loach movies, Diarios de Motocicleta for the beautiful photography of South America and the sense of adventure, Into the Wild for similar reasons. My favourite movie if I had to choose now would be Pride, most beautiful movie about solidarity I've seen so far, totally sums up my conception of activism.

Read the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, both really nice light reads for travelling.

Eduardo Galeano's "Las venas abiertas de Latinoamerica" and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" for non-fiction (aslo Trostky's "History of the Russian Revolution" which I found interesting even though I am by no means a Trostkist.)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiked 1500 km through South China, which was pretty amazing. I once got engaged next to the Taj Mahal, relationship didn't work out but it makes for a nice story still.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach and share: Languages, (French, Spanish, English, Portuguese) practical and theoretical activism, I'm getting not too shabby on a slackline, although I don't do any fancy acrobatics, always like to have people come boulder climbing with me, although for practical reasons I do it mostly in gyms these days.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, France, India, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, China, India

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