What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?
One small improvement I can make is to keep hoping everything will be all right.
What’s one small improvement you can make in your life?
One small improvement I can make is to keep hoping everything will be all right.
Share a story about someone who had a positive impact on your life.
So. I have three core friends that I consider my besties: Chele, J, and Reffie. They’re all phenomenal people. Kind, wicked smart, and have all known me at least a decade now.
They have all had positive impacts on my life in their own ways.
What does freedom mean to you?
I don’t actually know if I have a good answer to this. I’m female presenting, so there are limits to my supposed freedoms. I don’t consider myself a person of color, and POC face even harsher realities than I do just from the systemic terror placed on them.
Freedom is an illusion. One that could shatter like thinly poured isomalt, which is used for fake glass.
What public figure do you disagree with the most?
Trump.
What is your career plan?
My career plan is in flux, as what I most want to do is write. I dunno. I’ll figure it out sometime.
What was the last live performance you saw?
I don’t remember, exactly, but I think it was Anastasia with DW at the Straz in Tampa.
What do you do to be involved in the community?
Honestly, not enough in my local area.
What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?
If I could do any job for a day, I’d be a bartender. I always wanted to be one growing up. I suppose that’s a carry over from Cocktail being one of my late mother’s comfort movies.
Do you vote in political elections?
I plead the fifth.
What gives you direction in life?
Nothing much? The desire to leave the world a better place, I guess.
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?
The final line of Desiderata: “Strive to be happy”.
What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?
This is a hard one. Everyone likely expects me to say Halloween, because I’m witchy and shit.
But honestly? It’s any holiday where I get to spend time and break bread with family and friends.
I hate Thanksgiving‘a bullshit, genocidal origins. But man do I love going to see my papas and helping decorate the trees they put up after dinner.
Have you ever been camping?
Yup. Full on, fish from the river, sleeping bags in tents on the ground, fire with marshmallows on sticks camping was something I did as a teen.