CURRENT MISSION

Live well.

ABOUT ME

Makes me happy:
my daughter. thunderstorms in summer. inspiring conversations. chai tea. making people laugh. bubbles. wind at the beach. great books. love.

Makes me sad:
mediocrity. stupidity. lack of imagination.

Pastimes:
laughing dirtily. wittiness. basil. deconstructing the gender binary. language. tons of literature. theatre. martial arts. circus arts. blamage pour gage.

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I am a queer, a mother, a conference interpreter, a drag king, a good friend, a decent cook, an adventurer, a free spirit, a lover of theory, camp and all things glitter.
I am also a babywearing instructor (you've never heard of that, have you? Well, there you are).

PHILOSOPHY

Compassion!

Life, if lived well, is long enough. (Seneca)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I meet beautiful people.

Interests

travel, poetry, theatre, laughter, lavatorial humour, crop rotation, dressing up, veganism, karate, nudes descending staircases, the muse, the news, the hypotenuse, complexity, syncronicity, serendipity, authenticity, appropriation, the bizarre, the specific, the general...

• arts
• books
• literature
• poetry
• cooking
• baking
• vegan
• instructor
• news
• traveling
• camping
• adventure races
• martial arts
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books, please! Oscar Wilde (see above), Marías, Hesse, Baricco, McEwan, Muschg, Nabokov, Murakami, Carroll, Dürrenmatt, Reza, Calvino, Frisch, Yoshimoto, Pirandello, Celan, Dr. Seuss...

“I don’t know how much movies should entertain. I’m interested in movies that scar.” (David Fincher)
How about In the mood for love (Wong Kar Wai), Todo sobre mi madre (Almodovar), Dogville (von Trier)...

Smashing Pumpkins, Muse, MM, Depeche Mode, Diana Krall, Monsieur Camembert, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Björk, NIN, Portishead, Carmen Consoli, Olivia Ruiz, Hooverphonic, Kate Nash, Gotan Project, tango, classic (Tchaikowski, Beethoven, Chopin...), opera...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Given birth to a child.
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Lost a bo fight in the Himalaya.
Conquered the tiger in Wudang Shan.
Danced at a funeral in Ghana.
Saw humpback whales.
Lived in Rome.

Oh me oh my, oh me oh my, what a lot of funny things go by!

Teach, Learn, Share

vegan cooking and baking- yum!
Oh, yes, languages, right. Be here on friday morning and I'll take you into the booth with me so you can have a shot at simultaneous interpreting (exciting!).
If you are interested in babywearing for one reason or another I can show you the art of wrapping.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Italy, Netherlands

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