I am a linguistics graduate student, union steward and activist, and sometimes gardener and cook.

Interests: socialism, cats, anti-imperialism, gardening, feminism, tea, morphophonology, fencing, blues, Halloween, punk rock, anti-colonialism, coffee, social history of science, history, Día de los Muertos, Optimality Theory, the Cultural Revolution, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, terrible fantasy novels, good fantasy novels, queer liberation, fresh tortillas, Kwak'wala, Dakota, Zuni, Tohono O'odham, Yiddish, Classical Chinese, electric kitchen gadgets, reduplication, reduplication, Tae Bo, making fun of myself for liking Tae Bo

Music: Bessie Smith, Woody Guthrie, The Coup, Tori Amos, Wang Fei, Neko Case, Mirah, Judith Reyes, The Klezmatics, Big Bill Broonzy, Amparo Ochoa, Nina Simone, Leadbelly, Heather Alexander, Girlyman, The Weakerthans, Ida Cox, Carlos Puebla, Lightnin' Hopkins, Vienna Teng, Elizabeth Cotten, Mamie Smith, Gang of Four, Dar Williams, Splashdown, Der Partizaner Kish, Sonny Terry, Bukka White, Hannes Wader, Orishas

Movies: The Battle of Algiers, Chungking Express, Reds, Cradle Will Rock, Whale Rider, Children of Men, Goodbye Lenin!, Blind Shaft, Serenity, 红灯记, 东方红, Strange Days, Born in Flames, Barry Lyndon, Mulholland Drive, Donny Darko, Southland Tales

Authors/Books: Marx, Fanon, Silvia Federici, Gramsci, Lorde, Wittig, Lenin, Linda Singer, Zhang Chunqiao, W. E. B. DuBois, J. C. Mariategui, Angela Davis, Wendy Brown, Stafford Beer, Slavoj Zizek, Jeff Schmidt, George Jackson, Mercedes Lackey, Paula Volsky, Holly Lisle, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Federico Garcia Lorca, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nazim Hikmet, Bill Waterson, Jonathan Lethem, Neil Gaiman; 战国策