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hello.
i live in west philly in the cedar park neighborhood, just west of clark park. i have big bay windows facing the sunset and i'm steps from a sweet co-op and a radical meeting space. you should come visit!
i work for a nonprofit working on ending genocide (specifically in darfur) doing design, website development and "online community organizing." i'm part of the philadelphia handbell ensemble.
i really, really appreciate creative people -- creative in art, music, writing, dance, theatre, cooking, back-of-napkin doodling, whatever. i think curiosity about the world and how to make it more interesting/magical is really fucking attractive.
i paint things -- lots of things -- and ride my bright green bike along the river. i've been all over the country as a kid but almost nowhere outside of it. i grew up in rural northern arizona. my hometown has no stoplights.
i'm queer which means i date women and men as well as in between and beyond. i identify as a radical feminist, do my best to be anti-racist (including lots of thinking and workshopping) and try to be a good cisgendered trans ally.
aim/yahoo: TheLifeQuixotic
tunes
Le Tigre, Dresden Dolls, Nick Drake, The Mars Volta, Smashing Pumpkins, Joanna Newsom, TV on the Radio, Bright Eyes, Portishead, Ratatat, Against Me!, Denali, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Antony and the Johnsons, Pulp, CocoRosie, Philip Glass, Asobi Seksu, The Smiths, Sneaker Pimps, Sufjan Stevens, The Magnetic Fields, Mirah, Johnny Cash, Poe, The Queers, Neutral Milk Hotel, Deerhoof, Straylight Run, Cat Power, Hot Hot Heat, The Get Up Kids, Save Ferris, Thievery Corporation, Norah Jones, Stereolab, The Postal Service, The Anniversary, Anti-Flag, The Format, Pretty Girls Make Graves, OK Go, The Doors, The Cure, The Stills, Matt Pond PA, Something Corporate, Miles Davis, The Arcade Fire, AFI, Radiohead, JS Bach, Alkaline Trio, Dropkick Murphys, Catch 22, Jump Little Children, No Use For A Name, Guster, Green Day, MC Solaar, Bad Religion, Trembling Blue Stars, Elliott Smith, Rainer Maria, Bloc Party, The Loved Ones
books
We Are Everywhere, Globalize Liberation, No More Prisons, From ACT UP to the WTO, God of the Small Things, War Boy, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Calvin & Hobbes, Great Expectations, Ender's Game, Golden Compass (etc.), Neuromancer, Time's Arrow, Arcadia (play), House of Leaves, The Dispossessed, The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams, Refusing to Be a Man, The Trouble with Normal
film
Ghost World, The Neverending Story, Ma Vie en Rose, The Fourth World War, Pi, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Donnie Darko, The Architecture of Reassurance, Angels in America, La Planète Sauvage, Magnolia, La Jetée, Run Lola Run, Frida, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Solyaris (Tarkovsky), Les Temps Morts, Naqoyqatsi, The Gleaners and I, Velvet Goldmine, Brick, The Chumscrubber, F for Fake
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Rootwork: Freelance web services, online organizing and more for nonprofits Jan 28, 2009
Last year, I launched my freelance consulting firm, Rootwork, which provides web development services, online organizing and fundraising strategy and more for nonprofits.
Some of you have already noticed that the old articles from this site have moved over there …
So, what should we do now that racism is over? Jan 21, 2009
Because you know some people are going to be making that argument now.
"Hey, we don't need affirmative action, there's a black man in the White House!"
Right. Just like when FDR was elected, they stopped bothering to try to cure polio.
Update: Like, say, here and
'I want a language that speaks the truth.' Nov 1, 2008
At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public's pocket are the order of the day -- indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue -- the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.
One more great quote, relevant to this …
Drop Debt Not Bombs: Drexel Convocation Dance Party [Flickr] Oct 18, 2008
quixoticlife posted a photo:
Convocation is when the president welcomes people to Drexel and talks about the glories and traditions of our fine academy. It's generally a boring waste of time. Instead Drexel Students for a Democratic Society hosted a hoppin' …
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