About
I'm a journalist, writer, and editor whose work focuses on gender, arts & culture, travel, and the environment. I also enjoy writing about religion, politics, poverty, and being childfree.
In a past life, I worked in non-commercial radio, online video, and as an activist. I spoke at conferences in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, and Ankara, Turkey. My online video manifesto was featured on Boing Boing, and my anti-street harassment organizing was featured in the Boston Globe. In 2008, I received my master's degree from Emerson College.
I'm currently based in San Francisco, where I live with my partner, Andreas, and our catness, Malcolm. In the last six years, I've also lived in Copenhagen and Boston.
Frequent answers
Likes: avocados, Danish dancehall, sleeping with the windows open, sterility, bicycles, contemporary art, (my 1987 diesel) Mercedes Benz, bundling up, dance-punk, potatoes, compassion, academic analysis of celebrity gossip, marzipan, the Balkans, aesthetics of cigarette smoking, chess, vintage cameras and serious amateur photography, Batman, the suffix -ness, South Korean parliamentary brawls, acupuncture, grandparents, hygge, personal geography, snail mail, decaf espresso, nostalgia
Dislikes: fundamentalists, speciesism, migraines, GMOs, technophiles, licorice, historical fiction, monolithic definitions of love and/or marriage, being photographed, living history museums, poetry, mixing live action and animation, myopia
Inspirations (abridged): on-the-spot translators, parkours, roadies, Naomi Klein, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, people who pray in restaurants, Joan Didion, Sherry Turkle, cab drivers, Virginia Heffernan, Miranda July, Stevie Nicks, INTJs, civil resisters
I believe in the necessity of furniture, the art of letter writing, and the indispensability of print media.
