places I've lived so far: trailer home on a Mennonite farm in Pennsylvania; tent in a state park in South Carolina; crisis pregancy center (my parents were counselors there); tiny suburban house with a huge yard; log cabin in the middle of New Jersey's fanciest soccer facility; 4,000 square foot house in a former Christian fundamentalist commune; apartment built into the side of a hill overlooking the Tappan Zee Bridge; orphanage on the outskirts of New Delhi; soul-crushing dorm on 15th street; miniscule room I had to climb over the roof to get into on 118th; east harlem apartment #2 (where I came the closest I've ever been to death); my ex-CIA grandma's house in Carrboro.

queer/pansexual with a current penchant for the ladies ;D, possibly a little bit genderqueer, sex-positive, anarchist-ish, nerdy, passionate, down-to-earth, intellectually voracious human being with an emphasis on kindness, openness, learning, self-transformation and constant challenge. Or, sometimes, not.

learning constantly. wandering. alternating between absorbing everything around me hungrily and walking around in a haze. watching tv. coming to the realization that lots of people are legitimately pretty happy most of the time. getting sorority girls and soccer moms their caffeine fix. fighting for a better existence.

challenging authority figures in a friendly manner, empathy, making friends with animals, hijinks, doublethink, cussin', finding good things to eat, accumulating reading material, bullshitting, being a derp, getting along with people I have little in common with, dancing when I get nervous, riding horses, yelling, hanging out in foreign countries

I find that worrying about that sort of thing too much is an impediment to my sanity.

books: (most of these authors are representative of genres I'm into) george saunders, jonathan weiner, terry pratchett, china mieville, sarah vowell, julian barnes, douglas adams, brett easton ellis, don delillo, william s. burroughs, james c. scott, stephen jay gould, michael muhammad knight, loren eiseley,ursula k. leguin, susanna clarke, classics like steinbeck and wodehouse and t.h. white. transmetropolitan, the invisibles, doom patrol, league of extraordinary gentlemen, planetary

movies: pierrot le fou, divine intervention, russian ark, the diving bell and the butterfly, natural born killers, notre musique, noi albinoi, once upon a time in the west, ghost dog, dead man, recently seven psychopaths. wes anderson, quentin tarantino, werner herzog and the coen brothers won't get me any street cred, but I lubs them. I also watch a hell of a lot of documentaries; currently fascinated by films about bizarre permutations of human sexuality. (not code for porn, although porn is fine.)

I watch far too much television. I like all those sorta-obscure-sorta-huge comedy shows that alt people generally enjoy (parks n rec, portlandia, archer, bobs burgers, loiter squad, key & peele, 30 rock, arrested development, etc), as well as shitty reality stuff and the Mentalist and everything David Attenborough has ever done. I may be addicted to Intervention.

music: fucked up, wu-tang clan, leftover crack, agalloch, ulver, spiritualized, 16 horsepower, woods of ypres, envy, ufomammut, bathory, nick cave and the bad seeds, janis joplin, burzum, john fahey, horseback, grimes, kendrick lamar, burial, cormorant, devin townsend, erykah badu, pixies, shabazz palaces, spiritualized, tyler the creator, aesop rock.

food: cuchifritos, vietnamese/thai/japanese/indian, israeli/lebanese/turkish/moroccan, greek, legit sichuan, dim sum are a few favorites, but I will try pretty much anything.

spending time in third world countries teaches you that you can do without pretty much anything.

but I love caffeine and my stupid creepy Orwellian smartphone, and I always have a book with me

evolutionary biology anarchism gender and sexual politics writing/writers/literature hermeneutics congress (both sexual and institutional) feminism theology of all sorts transhumanism language self-reinvention heteronormativity doing drugs not doing drugs freedom queer movement conspiracy theories epistemology birds badassery cinematography islam history of drugs the Invisibles being real puns

with musicfire12, cuddlin n bein cutesy etc :3

I'm a recovering addict and alcoholic w/ a few months clean and sober at this point and most of my profile was probably written on one substance or another. life's been interesting

you're a kinky, smart woman who'd like to have some casual fun. you need some new queer friends. you're a bi couple looking for another bi couple for fun or messing around. you're recovering from substance abuse problems and would like to build a support network. and whatever else, messaging doesn't hurt! I want to talk to you!