is Human Practice:
Projects/Visions/Activism
Projects I’m Currently Working On
EDIT: Feb 2010
Artistic life on hold for academic goals. Still training in aerial corde lisse and silks with Kiebpoli and Jordann Baknn ber at the House of Yes. Still studying classical guitar/Mongolian yattag with Jo Timko and Bayaarma Tuul, and creating music & collage/sculpture art on the side when I have time. Partnering on a music project with Jerone Hsu (Prime Produce). Still involved with WeaveaDream.org with Suzanne Simmons.
But no longer involved in NYC activist community/Brooklyn art/music scene, or domm’ing/other such work. Making ends meet through freelance graphic/web design & professional in-studio photography/video work (certified Professional Photography accreditation at the New York Institute of Photography, see portfolio). Would consider the occasional paid DJ/Video DJ gig for your party: DJ subRos@ – will bring the crowd (100-800 solid) & create/promote your fliers. Willing to arrange space, catering, and entertainment for your event at a negotiable price.
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LAST YEAR:
- AnnaKissed Collective, Brooklyn (www.annakissed.net) – building sallydarity through Anarchafeminist sex-positive activism
- Twilight Language: “Stripster” - working on a trip hop/dub/experimental album with Joshua Slusher
- The AnnaKissed Manifiesta – working on a full-length book
- Left Forum – working as their web/graphic designer, Anarchist Bookfair 2009 planning committee & afterparty planning at Surreal Estate
- Organizing the bimonthly hip hop 4 freestyle elementz series: with dj battles, mc battles, bboy battles, and art!
- Training in circus arts: silks, trapeze, hulahoop, lyra, acrobatics, and fire tricks at the SkyBox. Bike across the bridge to yoga mornings at Yoga to the People. Dance hip hop choreography at Blade’s (my old dance company’s) Friday open sessions. Break dance practice Mondays through Thursdays at 50 Humbolt Brooklyn Community Center. Weekly kung fu and belly dancing. Sporadic archery at Barnard. Moving joyfully and creatively, twice or thrice daily, and getting free (raw vegan organic awesome!) meals by Chris & Eric at Sprout Craft <3.
- Moonlighting as an Amazon. Your fantasy is my switch.
Cigarette Journey
I am currently taking a brief hiatus from activism and involvement in various organizations in order to focus on my creative projects. These are the projects that I am stepping away from for the time being:
- Project Label (www.projectlabel.org) – Building social and environmental nutrition labels accessible by mobile phone in order to promote ethical consumerism. I started this project two years ago with BeeFoo. Apologies for dropping back temporarily.
- People Usurp Power through Art and Learning (P.U.P.A.L. – People Use Your Power!) – Creating a Free School and donation-based emergency care clinic in Brooklyn, NYC with Ty, my open marriage husband. The first course at the Free School, a mini-medical school teaching basic diagnostic care to yoga instructors/acupuncturists and dedicated holistic health practitioners who want greater knowledge of applied Western medicine, with special outreach for former/current sex workers. This course will commence in September when Ty returns to NYC. The emergency room will commence operations in November. I am holding back on organizing until July 2009.
- Freegan.info, In Our Hearts, 123 Community Space, Icarus Project, Wetlands Activist Network, NYMAA, APOC – I would like to become active again in the young anarchist network in NYC in the near future. Also really interested in the Rock Dove Collective.
Heartache Children
Projects I have been involved with in the past, but am no longer involved with:
- Weave a Dream (www.weaveadream.org) – the student organization I started in college that is currently being lead by the beautiful Suzanne Simmons. I lead a winter break trip of 30 college students to Guatemala to help with fair trade efforts by Mayan women’s crafts cooperatives. (Katy’s article about the trip.)
- Chinatown Youth Initiatives, Chinatown Literacy Project, “Asian American Youth Action!” (AAYA!) Inter-school Newsletter (www.cyinyc.org) – I served as Executive Director for this youth-run nonprofit organization from 2004-2005, and was overwhelmed by the amount of responsibility I was faced with as a seventeen-year-old. My exit from this organization was far from graceful, and I give my humblest apologies. I have yet to learn how to face these ghosts of past failures that haunt me and lead me plunging into cycles of paralysis.
- Mercado Global (www.mercadoglobal.org) – I worked as a Jewelry Production Manager, traveling between seven Mayan women’s crafts cooperatives in Guatemala to create fair trade bead jewelry sold in the U.S. to raise money for education. The beautiful Ruth continues to save the world through fair trade! I am quiet to her about this: but she is my number one hero, my role model.
- Youth Views Institute, Point of View Documentary Films on PBS (www.pbs.org/pov) – preparing teaching materials for screenings that empower youth organizing (Undeserved New York Daily News article)
- CreateNow (Asian American Writers Workshop) and Urban Word NYC - host for open mic series summer 2006, those amazing days of open mics and poetry slams
- Blade Dance & Entertainment: School of Contemporary Hip Hop, DubSpot Electronic Music and DJ School
