Aleza

jews against the occupation nyc, formerlythursdaymehanata society, the reverb conspiracy, zaftig femmes affinity group

words, cooking strange vegetables, books and then more books, investigating underlying structures, cumin, my gorgeous new bicycle, building radical jewish community (and other kinds of community, too!), the view from the q train when you go over the bridge, the smell of libraries, rabble rousing, memory, history, language, bodies, expensive whisky, the color red, other people's cats, sex, pretending to be a monster with my sister, buenos aires, being a big femme, jews, activists, queers, nicaragua, night, windows

regarding the pain of others, dreams of an insomniac, the taqwacores, autobiography of red, social history potboilers (aka rivington street), the master and margarita, the gastronomical me, the question of bruno, beans paper glass, against forgetting, witch baby, rolling the r's, in the skin of a lion, poetry like bread, love and longing in bombay, las cartas que no llegaron

rear window, mystery train, all about my mother, mullholland drive, delicatessen, romy and michelle's high school reunion

pixies, ghetto tango (and adrienne cooper generally), sleater-kinney, magnetic fields, juanes, tom waits, morphine, cafe tacuba, the weakerthans, astrid hadad, david byrne, orishas, gotan project, the shondes!

i grew up without a tv: draw your own conclusions.

i'm short, but concentrated. i believe in words, but not exclusively. this world delights and confounds me: and though feelings of despair have been lurking lately, making me feel overwhelmed at how much work there is to do, i'm very glad to have an intensive enjoyment of things- black lace, roasted artichokes, the feeling of the air as i sail over the manhattan bridge on my bike, how it feels to plot revolution with the people i love- to balance that out.

people who will wax rhapsodic about the best way to cook lacinato kale. people who will wax rhapsodic about words like 'rhapsodic'. people who believe in the possibility of radical change and are working to make it happen. people who know where we can go out dancing in the post-mehanta age. people who want to go adventures to the depths of queens to eat things from former soviet republics. people who will wrestle me and not whine when i hit them hard. people who own sewing machines and will teach me to use them. people who will talk theory. people who explain their terms. people who get really excited. people who value their sense of smell. people who have big plans. people who don't think midnight is too late. people who like very loud music. people who give a shit. people who like coney island in the winter.