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Oh how I love thee, let me count the ways

  • Travis Sullivan's Blog
    My favorite arranger, composer, saxophonist, pianist, and blogger!
  • Rebecca Raleigh, Fashionista and Stylist
    My friend and soror Rebecca Raleigh is a HOT fashionista and stylist who will work with you to create your best look without breaking your budget. Rebecca Raleigh was also the WINNER of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars Design a Dance Contest!
  • Working Families Party
    Voting my values with Working Families Party: "The Working Families Party (WFP) is New York’s liveliest and most progressive political party. Formed by a grassroots coalition of community organizations, neighborhood activists, and labor unions, we came together build a society that works for all of us, not just the wealthy and well-connected."--WFP
  • BUST Magazine
    I love everything about BUST. Who wouldn't love a magazine for "girls with something to get off their chests". BUST is the best thing since Sassy Magazine, and every month I anticipate the goodness that is the newest BUST issue with excitement and the knowledge that I am going to feel inspired and learn something new.
  • Barefoot Workshops - Documentary Workshops and Media Training for NGOs
    My friend Chandler and his wife Allison devote their lives, love, energy, and resources to teaching documentary filmmaking workshops to people around the world. The empower people to tell their stories through film in order to fundraise, make change, and of course create art!
  • kinda asiany | Little Miss Drama Pants
    Check out my friend's awesome blog about life, love, knitting, politics, and more. She also has her amazing puppy on the blog who is one of the cutest dogs I have ever met!
  • Salute HQ
    Check out my friend Fox Fisher's gorgeous, fun, and innovative graphic design and illustration website. Fox created and designed the beautiful banner for the blog!
  • Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc.
    Sisterhood is powerful.
  • SYRF - Get Involved
  • Travis Sullivan's Bjorkestra
    My partner's amazing website!

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One-Line Bio

I am a writer, scholar, activist, organizer, expat-brat, networker, cartwheeler, truthseeker, yogini and storyteller.

Biography

"She had nothing to fall back on; not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood. not anything. And out of the profound desolation of her reality she may well have invented herself." -- Toni Morrison

Who I want to meet:
Cool people, 'got your back' people, funny people, vintage fashionistas, teachers, my maker, learners, Kara Walker, Santi White from the punk band Stiffed, Frida Kahlo's spirit, Anna Karina. Barack Obama, The Dalai Lama, Oprah, other quirky femme-noirs, Neil Young, my great grand pa Herman Mckinney, activists, revolutionaries, Marie Antoinette, people who give me orchids and coy smiles, people who know how to make me tiramisu, midnight swimming, sweet smelling, dancing, contemplating, playground rules playing, people who sincerely give a damn, lovers, fighters, brave people. Oh-- and..bloggers.
Who I don't want to meet? Petty Tyrants.