I am a working-class artist and activist who has made a dive into home ownership after years of being a vagabond.

The house I own was left empty for years, and purchased for $500 despite being a 3,000sq ft colonial. My partner and I are fixing it up, mostly on our own, with an artists' and activists' budget. It's rough, charming,
and my home! (Think urban camping, plus kitchen.)

I love to hear life stories, especially from those who have traversed unconventional or rocky paths.

I am anti-white supremacy activist. I am Queer.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I believe deeply in the power of cultural exchanges and in making travel accessible for everyone. I love learning through personal connection as well as sharing what I have learned.

Interests

In the past decade or so, I've had a million jobs ranging from the grotesque to the elite, traveled and moved more times than I can count, and have been to no less than four colleges.

My BGS was focused around fine art, visual/cultural anthropology, political science, education, and art history. Continuing, I am interested in how autonomous communities form and create their own governments and I want to create visual materials that incubate cross-cultural empathy/understanding.

I am a photographer, a sculptor, a painter. I write. They are their own languages; I see differently through each one. They also help pay my bills.

I love conversing deeply/I work best in quiet.

• arts
• coloring
• education
• dining
• cooking
• gardening
• traveling
• house work
• hiking
• camping
• anthropology
• art history
• teaching
• history
• languages
• political science
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

-flying lotus, erykah badu, kate bush, death grips, d'angelo, joni mitchel, XTC, nina simone, pj harvey, cocorosie, fever ray, al green-

air, althea and donnna, aphex twin, b.b king, bat for lashes, beach house, brian eno, boards of canada, bill withers, cat power, Chance the rapper, charles mingus, daniel johnston, david bowie, the dresden dolls, ella fitzgerald, elton john, emily haines, etta james, eurithmics, fiona apple, the internet, jarboe, joan baez, joy division, kd lang, kendrick lamar, the knife, mgmt, massive attack, mazzy star, the metric, nirvana, nina hagen, pat benatar, the pavement, phil oches, placebo, portishead, shabazz palaces, shang gri-las, sigur ros, siouxsie and the banshees, the swans, tears for fears, tune-yards, tracy chapman, tricky, Xx, yeah yeah yeahs, the zombies...

beasts of the southern wild, hedwig and the angry inch, code 46, shortbus, do the right thing, grindhouse, you me and everyone we know, doom generation, plagues and pleasures of the salton sea, there will be blood, waking life, stranger than fiction, life aquatic, brick, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, magnolia, 8 1/2, Ghost Dog, lots of Herzog, let the right one in . . .

steven universe. Varying anime series. HTGAWM

Leslie Marmon Silko, Jonathan Safran Foer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italio Calvino, Michel Foucault, Zitkala Sa, Ursala K. Le Guin...

Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Invisible Man, Ishamel, Middlesex, Factotum, Eating Animals, Marcovaldo, Incredibly Close and Extremely Loud, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Reviving Ophelia.

What comes out of my kitchen. eggs (versatile!) curries. ice cream. spice. dark beers. most anything made with love.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Been a few...

I drove across country (2600miles) with everything I owned packed into a '92 Volvo 240.

Took the Orient express, alone, so that I could hike through Cappadocia in solitude on my 23rd birthday.

I lived in a squat in Rome in a sort of torrid romance for a year. Spent time in other squatting communities in Amsterdam and London, meeting amazing people.

Started my local Occupy Movement. For better of for worse!

Teach, Learn, Share

Local histories, especially those that have been white washed.

Bio-remediation, gardening.

Home repair.

Cooking, food.

Jewelry making, clay work, acrylic and watercolor paints.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food (nutritious, comforting.) Custom jewelry/art. Succulents in handmade pots.
House work (cleaning/repair/organizing/beautification!)
Punk-rock hair-cuts and coloring.
Conversation. Listening from the heart and pulling apart with the brain.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, El Salvador, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Netherlands, United States

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