"Do you really think that every question is contained in that spark of light?" - Kabbalah: A Love Story by Lawrence Kushner

Name

A.S (or ari)

About Me

herein lies a brownskin beatnik. influenced by Ginsburg/Burroughs, Kesey, islam, the harlem renaissance, tibetan buddhism, dance, womanism, books, poetry, natural hair, fat bodies, sub free living, herbal tea, urban homesteading, chakras, alternative healing, critical race theory, jewish studies (my major), brown queer existence, tantric sex, biking, brown incarnations of veganism, music, art, and occasionally politics.

you can be my friend if your human, animal, liquid, spirit, ghost, or a gaseous star!

You can be my friend if...

you like to read, write, create, think, act, love, fuck, make love, sit in bath tubs and believe each bubble is a new universe, look at the stars, walk on the beach, skinny dip at night,

Occupation:

being a student, sometimes office assistant to grassroots organizations.

Favorite movies:

Little Miss Sunshine, American Beauty, Amadeus, Immortal Beloved, The Piano, The Hours, A Home at the End of the World, Shogun, To Live, House of Flying Daggers, Infamous, Everything is Illuminated, Loving Annabelle, But I'm a Cheerleader, Gia, Bound, A Girl like Me, Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, Water, Girl with a Pearl Earing, I am Sam, KINSEY, Bound, Lost and Delirious, Brokeback Mountain, High Art, My Life in Pink, Shakespeare in Love, The Secrets, Milk, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Pineapple Express, Rent,

Favorite books:

Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Larson, George Orwell, Dante, Pablo Neruda, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sylvia Plath, Anais Nin, Carl Sandburg, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, Zora Neale Hurston, T Cooper, Albert Camus, Jack Kerouac, Sarah Waters, Michael Cunningham, Clive Barker, William Butler Yeats, Neil Gaiman, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel, Thich Nhat Hanh, Starhawk

Relationship status:

single as ever

Orientation:

Queer

Zodiac Sign

leo

Smoke/Drink?

no/ no