Rozele Magpie

making things: cardboard, costumes, collectives...

aftselokhis ladies auxilliary home for the aged, yidn kegn der okupatsye, suck my treyf gender crew, great small works extended family, alte zakhn, rude mechanical orchestra/team awesome

puppetry, anarchistn, yiddish, chocolate, cooking, queers, trans, s/m, whiskey, spices, cities, mountains, wanderlust, sailors, fem, cats, movement theater, genderqueer, red diaper babies, palestine, radicals, geek/punk, anti-patriarchy, anti-racism, radical jews

samuel delany, rela mazali, david wojnarowicz, barbara smith, joan nestle, carol queen, aurora levins morales, sara marcus, grace paley, mac wellman, suzan-lori parks, jean genet, mr. califia, adonis, celia dropkin, mahmoud darwish, alison alpert, both ms. steins, octavia butler, ursula le guin, michael muhammad knight, see also: sf, social-history potboilers, poetry, theater texts

the raspberry reich, maggots and men, poison, velvet goldmine, caravaggio, divine intervention, dyke tactics, fagtactics, the court jester, potemkin, being john malkovich, beau travail, la commune, (TW, kate huh, danny kaye, derek jarman, chris marker, SKJ adventures, etctera)

the velvet mafia, inner princess, the RMO, klezmatics, nomy lamm, huggybear, seldom scene, velvet underground (& lou reed), charles mingus, hungry march band, circus amok band, blackalicious, erase errata, missy elliot, nina simone, the long lost, dolly, charming hostess/jewlia, lito, godco, don byron, crass, gogol bordello, the kominas, the shondes, sacred harp, jessica lurie, iris (i admit it, okay?), romashka, the luminescent orchestrii, adam matta, jane lecroy, patrick farrell's projects, dj rekha, the mehanata mix in all its forms, mixes from friends & lovers

buffy (z"l)...what else is there? okay, firefly too i suppose. but really.

(um...i can't stand the mandatory top 3 questions, and what *am* i supposed to do with the gender one anyway?)
(and how often am i on this machine anyhow?)

recent & ongoing obessions:
fem (mine and others) and faggotry, making everything out of found material, traveling again soon, bike club colors, purim debauchery, trannyfag sailors on ice, zionism (what the fuck!?), that odd anarchist/antinomian/pirate intersection, the undomesticated parts of cities (in nyc: the high line z"l, the east river waterfront z"l, etc)

constants:
working with available materials. long curly hair. "i didn't join a collective to do this much work alone." not being able to tell the differences between my politics, sexuality, gender, jewishness, family, and wardrobe, and not really caring much. cooking midnight meals.

smart folks with complicated genders.

co-conspirators.

caustic and sincere is good. staying up too late is good.

comrades to hit the road with, whether it's the chelsea high line tracks or the highway from bucharest to istanbul. folks who go dance after meetings, or skip the meetings to go dance.