Florencia Manovil

emerson

preparing for Kayen's imminent arrival

fluidity

my growing belly and the cartwheeler inside it, getting to my special happy place, subverting the mainstream paradigm, justice, moving around the map, feminism, film, holistic nutrition, compulsively photographing those I love, languages, queers, the moon, activism, eating and cooking wholesome yummy vegan food, speeding past cars stuck in traffic on my bike, dancing, getting depressed by the rape of the environment (among other things), bringing down patriarchy and car-culture, odd numbers, veganism, freeganism, Tarot, being manic, trying to make friends with squirrels/doggies/kitties, loving amazing people.

Island and Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), Another Country (James Baldwin), Communion (bell hooks), Culture Jam (Kalle Lasn), Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley), The Will to Change (bell hooks), Tori Amos, Piece by Piece, Your Self-Confident Baby (Magda Gerber), chunky (DeWayne Dickerson).

The Motorcycle Diaries, My Beautiful Laundrette, Buenos Aires Viceversa, No Such Thing, The English Patient, Bleu, Happy Together, The Book of Life, The Ice Storm, The Accidental Tourist, Eyes Wide Shut, But I'm a Cheerleader, Donnie Darko, Dogville, In the Cut, Strange Days, The Big Lebowski, Killin' Them Softly (Chappelle standup), so much more.

brilliant lyrics, and/or heart and soul, and/or an excellent beat. Tori, PJ, Pulp, Beatles, (brilliant band from Portland called) Dahlia, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Tricky, Mary J, Taleb, Mos Def, Blur, Radiohead, K's Choice (sarah is SO hot live), Brazilian stuff (todo tipo), good soundtracks (Stealing Beauty current favorite), Counting Crows and DMB (old stuff, for the poetry), of course Argentine classics (Fabulosos Cadillacs, los Rodriguez, Fito Paez, Calamaro, Sui Generis, Autenticos Decadentes, Pericos, ) + other latinamerican music (Silvio Rodriguez, Juan Luis Guerra), good mainstream pop, trashy stuff to shake my bootie (Enrique! Beyonce!), oh I could go on and on.

websites: tribe.net & craigslist.org. Don't watch TV, but on video/dvd: Smack the Pony (fucking hilarious female british sketch comedy), Buffy, ER (just finished season 2 on dvd), FREAKS AND GEEKS, Family Guy, Chappelle. And YES, The L Word.

I am at a time of gigantic transition, from individual/daughter/wandering child of the world to mother/responsible for another human being.
Thankfully my partner in crime is pretty awesome. Right now we're both having fun just getting ready for a squishy cute new person to come out of my vagina, and having tons of discussions on how to best help this new person develop into whoever they are/want to be.

*Other counterculture pregnants/mommas.
*People from my past who I've lost touch with.
*Feminist anti-racist filmmakers (gender irrelevant). People who are sick of hollywood's sexist white-washed propaganda.
*ACTIVISTS/culture jammers. someone who wants to alter billboards with me :)
*Non-patriarchal people anywhere who want to make things happen (be that a futbol game, a film that means something, an information collective, a friendship..)
*People who will babysit for free!