John Won

Stuyvesant Hs, Attended 1989 - 1993, Class of 1993

Stuyvesant HS, NYU

Agit-prop (day); QAPI community building (night)

The Dari Project (LGBT Korean documentation and resource development), The Audre Lorde Project: Center for LGBTSTGNC Community Organizing, CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Formerly with Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY)

words, local cultures, visuals, some sci-fi, apples, progressive/Queer/POC/class struggles

The Temperature of This Water, Catfish and Mandala, Gold by the Inch, Dictee, Duino Elegies, Dogeaters, Thich Nhat Hanh

What Are You Waiting For, Grain In Ear, Happy Together, You Can Count on Me

J, Wax, Park Hwa Yobi, Solid, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Everything But the Girl, Kiki & Herb

Six Feet Under (reminds me of real people in my life), Farscape (helps to recuperate my childhood fear of muppets)

Cancer

nyc born and bred korean. thorn in pauly's side. likes to look out windows on trains. finishes everything on plate. workaholic (tho maybe not at my day job). latch key kid. student of genealogies. easily addicted. communities. resistances. affinities, over exclusions.

Are you sure, sweetheart, that you want to be well? ...Just so's you're sure, sweetheart and ready to be healed, cause wholeness is no trifling matter. -- Toni Cade Bambara, The Salt Eaters

Remember that whatever they do to us is much less than what we do to ourselves if we do not resist -- Daniel Berrigan, citing an Israel-Palestine civil-rights activist in 60s-70s, The Raft is not the Shore / This is not a question of whydon'tyoulovemewhiteman because as history has shown, white privilege is built on the backs of black people. Anyone with even the most basic understanding of history can see how black bodies are constituted in the commercial marketplace: from the cane fields to the playing fields. -- L. Chua / Those were the days, Cindy / big lipped pignose kaboom booties snapping wrigleys chinese woman / your insecurities and latest stress magazine tucked safe into the prada / you were me / magnified / i had to love you, girl / because hating you / would be defeating / myself -- Ishle Yi Park, 'Zola Kai Mabel...'