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Overview

  • 25 references 18 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Arabic (North Levantine)
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Reproductive rights organization
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Wandering, Sharing, Imagining, Creating

ABOUT ME

Playful wandering witch on an unending expedition

Cay lady

I'm a seeker, and idealist.

I am very inquisitive, always wanting to know "why", "how" and "when", trying to really understand the world.

Embracer of the absurd and nuance.

In love with all kinds of beauty and expression-visual, subtle, metaphorical.

PHILOSOPHY

all of our beating souls are connected.

"In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."-Audre Lorde

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host and get hosted

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't hosted as much as I would have liked b/c my living situation has been in flux for a while but now I definitely want to give back and host people.

Interests

Nature, Psychology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Art (really like conceptual art, but all kinds),Film, History, Meditation, Natural Medicine, Feminism, Street Art, Abandoned Buildings, Astrology, Cooking and food, Architecture, Literature, Cats, Indian Food, Tattoos, DYI, The esoteric, Compassion and empathy, Honesty, Beauty, Misfits, Contradictions, Cooperation, Chaos, Synthesis, Knowledge, Hope, Juxtaposition, Aesthetics, Escapism, Emotions, Freedom, Autonomy, Myths and dreams, Vulgarity, Passion, Organic interactions, Curiosity.

  • cats
  • arts
  • literature
  • architecture
  • street art
  • beauty
  • tattoos
  • dancing
  • womens rights
  • dining
  • cooking
  • indian food
  • meditation
  • partying
  • politics
  • reading
  • juggling
  • cultural studies
  • history
  • medicine
  • psychology
  • sociology
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I love reading, too many to list! Mental stimulation is like air. A small taste: Dostoyevsky,Kafka,Sartre,Morrison,Walker,Allende,Marquez,Atwood,Camus,Butler,Ibsen,Wilde,Galeano. And a lot of non-fiction, i mainly like to learn about the past and social relations.
Recently been devouring modern Arabic literature, mainly authors from Cairo.
Same thing with movies, love independent and world films. small taste: Lang,Lee,Godard,Fassbinder,Sembene,Waters,Truffaut, Almodovar,Fellini,Kurosawa,Pasolini,Wertmuller,poetic movies,documentaries, etc etc etc.
And also music is essential. My taste is all over the place, from R&B to techno to house to nujazz to experimental to soul. Recently rediscovered Kate Bush!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Machu Pichu- breathe taking and magical
-Berlin architecture
-Seeing Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN leadership (also got to see Sucomandante Marcos smoking his pipe.)
-Taking part in a dance party/protest inside the office of University of Maryland's President
-Ukrainian Soviet era buildings and monuments
-The majestic hills of Palestine and the bustling streets of Cairo

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you spanish and about astrology. I can also get into interesting conversations about a variety of topics including: art, philosophy, cultural studies, astrology, gender, race, class, sexuality, history, alternative politics and psychology.

You can hopefully teach me how to walk on stilts and juggle and maybe also tarot card reading.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Israel, Mexico, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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