CURRENT MISSION

Listen and learn

ABOUT ME

Passionate about being socially and politically engaged, living sensitively on this earth, and contributing to the work of grassroots community organisations. Have worked in Aboriginal legal aid, women's rights and health, refugee rights, and Palestine prisoner advocacy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've shared many wonderful CS experiences as a host and surfer. I'm forever grateful for the hospitality extended to me, and have tried to repay it.

Interests

Indigenous struggles; refugee rights; liberation struggles (Palestine, Kurdistan, West Papua and others); theatre & art; cultural diversity and identities; collective & transgenerational memory; urban exploration; mythology & ritual; de-carceration and rights of criminalised people; cultural studies and critical theory; activism; hitchhiking; kayaking; eating fruit; etc. And talking at length in obsessive ways about all these things.

• arts
• kayaking
• cultural studies
• law
• hitchhiking
• urban exploration

Music, Movies, and Books

Literature&poetry: Pynchon, Genet, Céline, Henry Miller, Doctorow, Roth, Kundera, Mailer, Patrick White, Rimbaud, Mayakovsky, Oulipo, Baldwin, Ugrešić, Tsiolkis... /// Theatre/performance: Beckett, Artaud, Crimp, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Pinter, Stoppard, Barrie Kosky, Jarry, Castellucci, Sarah Kane, Eleventh Hour, Black Lung, Hayloft Project... /// Philosophy/theory: Nietzsche, Deleuze, Foucault, Heidegger, Benjamin, Zizek, Bataille, Sontag, Said... /// Film: Bertolucci, Almodovar, Kubrick, Woody Allen, Von Trier, Kusturica, Fellini, Herzog, Solondz, Wenders... /// Music: B.Dylan, L.Cohen, N.Drake, T.Waits, Mountain Goats, W.Oldham/BPB/Palace, Neutral Milk Hotel, J.Newsom, Bregović, Iron&Wine, Antony & The Johnsons, Scott Walker, Yann Tiersen, Chopin... /// Visual: dada, Russian constructivism, surrealism, Bill Henson, Australian modernism (especially Tucker), Man Ray, Cartier-Bresson, Nachtwey...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lots of amazing adventures... Let's discuss it in person!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malta, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Italy, Lithuania, Palestine

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