I am fundamentally opposed to militarized violence and to the arms trade. I believe that it is our collective, global responsibility to create conditions where nonviolent choices are able to be made and sustained.
I am White; I have a lifelong relationship with the violence of Whiteness and life long work undoing\/indoing the violence of white supremacy. I was born with a vulva; I have a relationship with Sisterhood, with Womxnhood, with the violence of patriarchy. I am genderqueer in the sense that I feel and express my masculinities and femininities running fluidly through me and do not desire to be read as one single gender, although I understand that I present in many different genders in many different ways at any one moment in time. I am not a self made person, there are many mes, hes theys and wes living inside me. I am attracted to many different genders and many different genitals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was born in 1979 in Virginia near Washington D.C., but my parents were transplants to that area initially because of my father’s job at George Mason University. My mother grew up in Iowa and Wisconsin. My father was a first generation German immigrant; he arrived on a boat in 1952 through Lutheran World Refugee services. We lived in central Illinois together as a family for about three years. I have family in Ohio, Connecticut, Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Colorado, and California. My first language is English, but as a child I heard my father speaking German to his brothers and his parents and I am working towards fluency. I learned to speak Spanish in University and used it when I worked as an advocate for asylum seekers from Latin America at East Bay Sanctuary Covenant<\/a> and during my independent study in Nicaragua in year 2000, in the community of Decimo Aniversario. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have had the privilege to move–across borders, and, in physical space, in most physical ways that I desire to with my body. Since I turned 40, I have owned an apartment in Berlin. I went to public school my whole life–I went to seven different public primary and secondary schools. Being the new girl became an identity and I learned to adapt to new contexts and adapting became part of my identity. My parents were both teachers. My father died in 2009 from ALS<\/a>. I got my MFA in Writing and Consciousness<\/a> from the New College of California and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies<\/a> with an emphasis in Gender and Sustainable Development from the University of California, Berkeley. I have practiced polyamorous and open relationships since 2001. I am a parent in a 3-parent queer family. I am a Dada, not a birth-mother. I am a worker. I am a sex worker and a sex positive feminist. I am an artist. I have been working a job since I was 16 years old. I have been living in Berlin since 2004. I struggle with understanding how to be a parent, a friend, a lover, a worker, an artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n