***Please read whole profile! I'll know if you haven't :)
***I don't host (cisgender) men. Nothing personal, but rape culture is a real thing y'all.

Hello there! I'm a 38 year old queer disabled cis woman multidisciplinary writer, educator, community organizer. I haven't done any big backpacking trips in quite a few years, because after my year long New Zealand and Southeast Asia excursion I moved to Minnesota, and then New York City, where I lived for five years, doing a number of interesting projects and activism and civil disobedience and odd jobs.

I then went to Laramie, Wyoming to study poetry and creative non-fiction at the University of Wyoming's MFA program, where I also minored in queer and race studies.

After that, I lived in Boston for three years while I completed an MA in American Studies, and then I moved to Maine to teach at a private school while finishing a master's in secondary social studies teaching. I now live in Auburn, Maine, with my partner, Jess, and my two guinea pigs, and I teach nearby. We just moved into a house, and we're still getting settled, so we're not ready to host yet (and she's never couch-surfed before, so she's still warming up to the idea!) — but I'm happy to meet up with people, schedules allowing!

I'm an introvert, but I'm a very enthusiastic and friendly one. I love sharing meals, ideas, questions, and conversation with new people.

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For people to meet-up!:

Must be queer/LGBTQ friendly, anti-Trump, and anti-racist. ZERO WHITE SUPREMACISTS/NEO-NAZIS. Must believe COVID is real, and have gotten vaccinated. I have long covid because of getting it 4 times, so I can't be around anti-vaxxers for my actual physical safety.

When you message me to ask me to let me host you, please write "fuck/down with white supremacy" somewhere in the message so I know you read the whole thing :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've surfed lots of times, hosted once (but happy to host again if the time is right!) -zero negative experiences, only purely lovely and fascinating ones. I want help keep the CS revolution alive! And I love meeting new people and exchanging ideas.

Interests

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• singing
• theater
• performing arts
• womens rights
• reading
• music
• spoken word
• cycling
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• travel
• social justice
• health
• comedy
• relationships
• pedagogy
• organizing
• climate justice
• anti-capitalism
• anti-racism
• musical theatre
• non-fiction
• racial justice
• intersectional feminism
• migration
• parks and recreation
• critical theory
• organizing events
• buffy the vampire slayer
• queer and trans liberation

Music, Movies, and Books

These favorites lists are like 7 years old but still true:

Authors/Writers: Marge Piercy, Jeannette Winterson, Sharon Olds, Annie Dillard, Sara Jaffe, Brenda Shaughnessy, Tracy Letts, Arthur Miller, Annie Baker, Kia Corthron, Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, James Baldwin, Frank O'Hara, Mary Oliver, Jenny Zhang, Patricia Highsmith, Helene Cixous, Cheena Marie Lo, Dean Spade, Arundhati Roy, Shira Erlichman, Taylor Steele, Suzan Lori Parks, Claudia Rankine, Fred Moten, Maggie Nelson!, Chris Kraus, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Sherman Alexie, Toni Morrison, Sara Ahmed...

Movies: I don't have favorite movies. I have movies I enjoy, and that list is ever-growing! But I'm more of a TV person, truth be told. I recently watched all the Scream movies and enjoyed them! And the film "Sing Sing" is effing incredible.

Television:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Orphan Black, Parks and Rec, Bob's Burgers, Jane the Virgin, Hacks, Veronica Mars, The Good Place, Halt and Catch Fire, Killing Eve, Kevin Can F*ck Himself, Jeopardy, The Gilded Age, My Life is Murder

Music:
There's so much - this list I have on here is old, but it's still pretty true - boygenius, Lucy Dacus, Hurray for the Riff Raff, John Prine, Mitski, Santigold, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, Jenny Lewis, Tuneyards, The Blow, LCD Sound System, Angel Haze, Josh Ritter, Alabama Shakes, Nick Cave, Neko Case, Jack White/The White Stripes, Girlyman, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Aimee Mann, Emily King, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Joni, Fiona Apple, the Avett Brothers, The Magnetic Fields, First Aid Kit, Sharon Von Etten, Lucy Wainwright Roche, St. Vincent, Ani Difranco, Janelle Monae, Frazey Ford, Dark Dark Dark, that one song by Brian Eno & John Cale, Brandi Carlile, Lykke Li, Sufjan Stevens, Dessa, Kendrick Lamar, musicals & 90s, and on and on and on, protest songs

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My first natural hot spring experience was pretty freaking amazing. Otherwise, this is a long list, much more delightfully shared in person!

Teach, Learn, Share

Things I can share with you about:

*the Enneagram
*living in New York City
*teaching writing
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer
*fibromyalgia
*having CFS/Long Covid
*critical race theory
*anarchism
*organizing, action planning, facilitation
*US political climate

Things I'd love to learn more about:
*speaking Spanish
*international current affairs, politics, & history
*plants
*protest/justice movements and strategy in other countries
*street medic-ing
*plant identification

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Singapore, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, United States

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