Steph

Build Acad, Attended 1987 - 1989
City Honors Sch-F Masten Pk, Attended 1989 - 1997, Class of 1997

University of Chicago

Organizer, Dabbler

Stone Soup Co-op, Neighbors for Naisy, League of Pissed Off Voters, Centre for Civil Society at UKZN, Hankin et al v. Seattle

ultimate frisbee, running, picking cherries, making pies, jade plants, getting dirty, food co-ops, housing co-ops, PAZs, bicycling, finger painting, urban space, public transit, critical mass!, loving my bicycle, politics of many sorts, long walks in the rain, library thing, dr weil, goldendoodles, abahlali basemjondolo

voodoo heart, the fifth sacred thing, the wind-up bird chronicle, sonnets to orpheus, paul farmer: pathologies of power, communion, teaching to transgress, any and all bell hooks, joan didion, eduardo galeano, studs terkel, gloria anzaldua, sapphire, margaret atwood, roxanne dunbar-ortiz, marquez, yvonne vera, chenjerai hove, bessie head, dambudzo marechera, audre lorde, foucault: knowledge/power, david graeber, merton, moore, neruda, lorca, whitman, rilke

notre musique, house of flying daggers, anything truffaut, lovers of the arctic circle, sexo y lucia, winged migration, city of lost children, terrence malick, kurasawa, wong kar wai, zhang yimou, the world, contact

flaming lips. nick cave. gogol bordelo. camera obscura. yo la tengo. nina simone. lionel hampton. fred anderson & henry grimes. hamid drake. habib koite. ron sexsmith. aloha. metric. the stars. stereolab. the coup. pierre boulez. jawbreaker. modest mouse. the handsome familiy. mountain goats. getting into a lot of arlo/woody guthrie stuff, and big bill broonzy.

none but an old liking for 24: mostly due to associative housemate addictions. check this by zizek: jack bauer & the ethics of urgency at www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2481, and for a girl w/o cable, a weekend of grandma's food network and "what not to wear" can be pretty life altering.

Cancer

Goals for 2007:

*learn to be a lyrical manipulator
*make more pie
*spend time relaxing
*go skydiving on 07/07/07!

*and, most important,
throw a real big b-day party on the lucky 7s to celebrate.

i used to be found here: http://www.stephinsouthafrica.blogspot.com

ok, i'm not really there anymore, but i'm not quite all here yet, either.

I really want to start a co-housing community, start working on getting property and land back in to the hands of the people, off the grid, and out of the hands of "investors," who aren't really investing in anything but perhaps their next move or their retirement. Wishing more people were looking into how to stop renting, and how to build intentional, creative, affordable, self-sustaining renewable walkable hoods.

mostly i don't rant, unless you know me well. mostly i'm a dreamer of vague far off dreams, who likes to throw parties, finish things, travel places and meet people all on her own conception of speed, space, time.

i'm flexible... but i'd really be down to dialogue bout organizing, culture shock!, privilege, homelessness, co-op living, democracy, community, haircuts, creating new value systems, power, liberation, farming in the 'hood, owning in the 'hood, where is the 'hood, llamas, the water cycle, solar power, roof top greenhouses, good wine, music, murals, anti-oxidants, action, justice, pianicas/melodicas, what you're reading, hot springs, heading west, layouts in the snow/sand/mud/rain, guardian angels, buffalo....