Shira Golding

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day Sc, Attended 1985 - 1998, Class of 1998

Cornell University, Attended 1998 - 2002, Class of 2002, Bachelor's Degree, Documentary Film, English

Artist, Activist, Filmmaker, Designer, Musician

MIX NYC

social justice, animal rights, environmentalism, art, design, movies, queerness, cats, child-rearing, gardening, filmmaking, activism, guitar, photography, blogging, cooking, knitting, basketball, volleyball, dancing, communing with nature, shenanigans

go tell it on the mountain (james baldwin), the house of spirits (isabel allende), naked (david sedaris), brave new world (aldous huxley), slaughterhouse-five (kurt vonnegut), the hidden dimension (edward t. hall), design for the real world (victor papanek), where the sidewalk ends (shel silverstein), palestine (joe sacco), fun home (alison bechdel), persepolis (marjane satrapi), the design of dissent (milton glaser and mirko ilic), the smartest kid on earth (jimmy corrigan), magazines - bitch, arthur, res, bust

walkabout, phantom india, dogville, wet hot american summer, but i'm a cheerleader, zoolander, ocean's eleven, out of sight, charlie and the chocolate factory, the labyrinth, before nights falls, buffalo '66, boys don't cry, american movie, all about my mother, hilary and jackie, the celebration, kids, swingers, hoop dreams, reality bites, olivier olivier, baraka, when harry met sally, the shining, el imaginero, 40 year old virgin, lost in translation, the royal tenenbaums, the talented mr. ripley, persepolis

bob dylan, tracy chapman, simon and garfunkel, indigo girls, mirah, elliott smith, ben harper, cat power, franz ferdinand, beck, the streets, outkast, mos def, aimee mann, ani difranco, beastie boys, the beatles, belle & sebastian, bjork, blackstar, blossom dearie, bob marley, cat stevens, don mclean, cocorosie, devendra banhart, dolly parton, fannypack, fela kuti, gillian welch, gogol bordello, gorillaz, holly golightly, le tigre, jeff buckley, juana molina, kaki king, lavender diamond, liz phair, m.i.a., manu chao, mark mothersbaugh, n*e*r*d*, peaches, phoenix, portishead, ravi shankar, rufus wainwright, sergio mendes, the strokes, sweet honey in the rock, ladysmith black mambazo, the white stripes, yeah yeah yeahs, john coltrane

the office, family guy, mr. show, da ali g show, weeds, big love, the l word, the sopranos, six feet under, my so called life, freaks and geeks, undeclared, the wire, ugly betty, friday night lights, 30 rock

Shira is an activist, artist, filmmaker and musician who enjoys spontaneously choreographing dance routines and playing competitive sports. She has no sense of smell and is obsessed with vegan sneakers. You may know her from Arts Engine where she traveled around the country screening films and running workshops about media as a force for social change from 2002-2007. Shira was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in Rockville, Maryland.

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Anyone who is funny or easily-amused, queer or queer-friendly, vegan or compassionate, honest or relatively truthful.