CURRENT MISSION

Settle into Seattle, work part-time for plata, volunteer for a transformative organization (around queer issues, gender issues, immigration, anti-militarization, that sort of thing. todavía no sé..)

ABOUT ME

I'm a white cisgender queer dude from rural Pennsylvania with a passion for hiking, reading, writing, and eating. now I live in Seattle in a cooperative home. That's not "all about me," but, you know, it's a snippet

PHILOSOPHY

But I think that we should speak about all the things that are happening around us. We are not evoking evil irresponsibly or in vain, for we have now become a part of it...

- Tadeusz Borowski

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surfed in Latin America and welcomed surfers when I was a student in Iowa.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

ha sido realmente bacán

Interests

feminism, new materialisms, performativity, language, environmentalism/nature, food + food production, art, music, the possibility and praxis of transformative social change, militarism, short stories, anarchism

• arts
• writing
• concerts
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• running
• reading
• music
• hiking
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Recent reads:

Fledgling by Octavia Butler
Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Working by Studs Terkel
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño
War Dances by Sherman Alexie
War with the Newts by Karel Čapek
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Open City by Teju Cole
Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town by Nick Reding

(I'm on a big post-college mostly-fiction kick)

Recent tunes:

Tito "El Bambino"
Eric B. & Rakim
Gillian Welch
Balkan Beat Box
Das Racist

Recent TV/Film:

Twin Peaks

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sunrise over the summit of Cotopaxi, grass and grains turn to milk turn to kefir, Inti Illimani in concert

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to learn more about most everything, and I have lots of thoughts I'd be glad to try to share. I know a bit about writing and running and I really like to cook.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Colombia, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Nicaragua, Slovenia, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, New Zealand, United States

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