Liberationist. Anarchist. Activist.
Against all authority/domination/hierarchy/oppression.
Against profit. Against competition, for cooperation.
For minimizing violence.
Playful. Passionate. Perceptive.
Sarcastic.

I'm on a mission, for love, justice and wisdom. (And when I say "love" I don't mean that in the misguided conventional romantic sense -- I mean compassion, and I mean emotional intimacy with friends.)

Sentiphiliac. I intensely love the thrill of my sentience. I am frightened and sorrowful at the thought of how restricted I know that I can't even know I am, but I WILL feel to the depths and breadths of whatever my incredibly limited human consciousness is capable of. I love feeling.

My most important principle: Every being has a right to autonomy over their own body, provided they respect that right of others. No exceptions. To be perfectly clear: Designating someone to a decidedly (as determined by a bigoted culture that normalizes discriminatory violence) "morally irrelevant" species classification does not make for an exception. ALL innocent animals deserve freedom from violence, white human primate mammal vertebrate or black human primate mammal vertebrate or chimpanzee primate mammal vertebrate or orca mammal vertebrate or dog mammal vertebrate or pig mammal vertebrate or chicken vertebrate or anyone. It does not matter how different a being is from you, if they have a will to live and be free, they haves right to live and be free. Too bound by a dated, speciesist, violent, selfish status quo or too enamoured of your human privilege to agree? That's your exit cue. Identify for me just one morally relevant characteristic that makes *every single* human a person and denies personhood to *every single* nonhuman. (If your response is "we're all human" then why is that sound reasoning but not "humans and chimps and gorillas: we're all primates" or "humans and chimps and gorillas and dogs and dolphins and cows and pigs: we're all mammals" and so forth?) Anyone who desires freedom from subjugation has a right to it. Don't pretend that his screaming and writhing (and subsequent isolation and shivering in the fetal position) somehow doesn't mean that a little piglet wants to run away from the human ripping his testicles out of his body. The tyranny of humans over nonhumans must end. All discrimination, domination and oppression must end.

"All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended." (Cloud Atlas)

This universe takes my breath away. Mindfulness, exploration, empathy, and a whole lot of laughter are very important to how I go about my life. And hiking with my quadrupedal babies! I think in big complicated pictures and my diverse studies at the University of Toronto focused on how society is formed through art, technology, and psychology. I watch TED Talks often and my interests range from cinema to evolutionary anthropology to theoretical physics. My core attitude is non-essentialist, existentialist, and relativist. I decide what roads I travel through my life, and I openly accept what ever paths you choose as right for you. The fine print is that I readily deny anyone that freedom if they choose to use it to hurt others.

“It’s not enough to just live, you have to have something to live for” (Battlestar Galactica). My mission is to go to bed every night in the knowledge that I am in some way more than I was when I awoke, and I wake up every morning ready to fight for those who need me. I also aim to challenge those around me to likewise always strive to become better than they already are. Good things come to those who actively seek them out, who take risks to find, create, and hold onto them. All actions have ripple effects and everything worth having costs something, so we just have to find the optimal balance. Oh, and we all have a responsibility to fight for those who need us, just as others fought for us to have all the rights that we take for granted.

Nothing turns me off half so much as freeloading and privileged apathy. And nothing turns me on half so much as selflessly, ardently fighting for justice!

And nothing makes me happier than playing with my Big Baby or cuddling with my Little Bear.

And I fervently love: the cinema, the most powerful and connective medium of communication we have created to date; the open Internet, as it can bring us together; scientific exploration, which drives us to become more than we already are; education, without which we have nothing else (but dear gods we have to overhaul the systems we use); and TED Talks. I love learning, and I want us all to explore and create and grow together.

Also, let me just be clear on this one again: Frak speciesism and every discrimination that disregards anyone's suffering: Violence against the innocent is wrong, and slavery is wrong, PERIOD. And yes, actually *any* being who desires to be free can be enslaved, no matter what gender or racial or species classification you shove them into. Just try coming up with one single principle that justifies rights for every single human and excludes all nonhumans. Why should just humans have rights? (To draw the circle around the ingroup tighter: Why should just white male humans have rights?) Let's try widening that circle of inclusion: Why not all primates? Why not all mammals (we already think that dog fighting and roasting a cat are wrong)? Why not all vertebrates? Why not all beings with an interest in having rights? Don't pretend like you can't tell whether a pig wants to be free. They use the same nonverbal communication that human and dog animals in distress do.

PS: Sexuality, you ask? Sentisapiosexual. Attracted to high calibers of feeling and thinking. Mostly sexually attracted to males, but very selective in the males I'm attracted to. I value physical and sexual exploration. I'm very sex-positive. And BDSM-positive. Switch, used to be more of a dom, now exploring my sub side and thoroughly enjoying it.

And emotional authenticity is critical in my friends and partners. No petty repressive humanshit.

I am a liberationist. That's an abolitionist who fights for an end to *all* slavery, emphasizing speciesist slavery since that's the offender of the most heinous crimes against the most people. Just like myself and the dogs in my family, every being with a central nervous system is a someone, not a something, and we all desire family and freedom, and none of us want to die. Every innocent animal deserves autonomy over their own body. I see my fight against speciesism as the fight to end all discrimination. (Intersectionality is very important to my activism.)

Please save my energy and don't attempt to justify the violence your society is responsible for by sending me an asinine comment about the dogs in my family, because nonhuman animals who our society will otherwise kill and throw away are our responsibility ["companions"], not our property ["pets"]. Same as an adopted child who is an animal who is a mammal who is a primate who is a human [who is of any racial classification -- let's remember when *that* circle of inclusion was not too long ago used to justify ownership]. And so long as you're on the "well they can't all be 100% free so it's okay for me to enslave whoever I want to, as brutally as is profitable, for my own personal gain with no consideration for their needs AND it's okay for me to pay people to enact violence against them for a social norm" train, please remember that unless you're a sociopath, if you're American, you ALREADY exclude puppies and kittens form that "morally acceptable" violence, not to mention animals who are humans.

It is my mission and very purpose to give my voice to those who so desperately need it. That's why I am an Organizer and Graphic Designer with Direct Action Everywhere!

And I include in my liberationism an opposition to any systems of control that enable imbalances of power. (Because that means, assuming a starting point of equality, that someone is taking power from someone else. The 1% didn't earn it, they stole it -- unless of course you can argue that the average CEO does work 350x as hard as their company's average employee.) This might mean I oppose all systems of "government" but I am yet undecided, I just know what my principles are. To be redundant, those principles are freedom and equality. And I certainly know that a consumerist society, which focuses on worthless superficial petty nonsense for zero gain (Psych 101: Money Doesn't Buy Happiness) and at the expense of not only meaningful pursuits and authentic social fulfillment but also the very planet we are a part of, is nothing but immensely net-negative.

Also... Excepting my fight against the oppression of others, I don't take life very seriously. I don't waste time with petty humanshit and I don't get selfishly stressed about anything to do with my own privileged life, and I am very non-judgemental and have little respect for people who put too much effort into superficial identity politics because oh my gods there are people crying and screaming for help right now so throw that ego out the window. And I know and insist that play (of all kinds) is imperative for enjoying life, so get playful!

Intellectual and emotional authenticity. Challenging people to think more consistently, feel more authentically, and act more purposefully. Analyzing and understanding why I and others think and feel as we do. Brutally straightforward honesty. Speaking up against injustice. Critical thinking. Matrix reasoning, pattern recognition, abstract problem-solving, inductive and deductive reasoning. Graphic design. Versatility. Playfulness.

"Intensity" and "composure" and a shirt with an animal liberation message or a sci-fi reference.

Movies: Cloud Atlas. Her. Sleuth. Don Jon. The Lord of the Rings. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Blackfish. Earthlings.

TV Shows: Battlestar Galactica. Star Trek. Revolution. Game of Thrones. Arrow. South Park. Doctor Who.

Books: Notre Dame de Paris 1492. A Song of Ice and Fire. Anna Karenina. Dracula. Night of the Living Trekkies. The Phantom Tollbooth. Fear of the Animal Planet.

Music: Old swingy jazz. And Chopin. The Cloud Atlas soundtrack. I appreciate and enjoy most musical forms of expression, actually, but that's usually what's playing as I go about my day. I also have a thing for electro swing.

Food: Dear gods I love cooking. Plants only, of course. (And when you hang out with me I will ask that you eat only plants as well, no products of violence against innocent defenseless animals.) I mostly eat fruit and leafy greens, and otherwise nearly stick to whole foods. Fruity nutty date balls and cashew cheeses and vegan fondues and raw plant-pure Nanaimo bars and coconut oil truffles are probably my favorite dishes to make and to eat -- preferably with others, I love making food that makes my friends happy.

Breathable air. At a steadily survivable temperature for human animals. Water. A gravitational field very extremely close to Earth's. Edible organic matter that requires no violence to attain sustenance from. Sunshine. (Does the snarkiness read through the monitor?)

I mean that's just a silly question. HA!

But what I have a very strong preference for not being without? Millie and Riley, two of the nonprimates in my family, and the two dearest people to me. My liberationist family. Fruit. Sex. Laughter. And sci-fi film for a seventh.

How about six things I really would like to do away with? Discrimination. Patriarchy. Capitalism. Petty nonsense and identity games that distract us from what matters. Pesticides that farmers have to wear suits to spray down. Human breeding.

Injustice. The nonhuman Holocaust. Violence. Discrimination. Imbalanced power structures. Oppression. Hatred, degradation and subjugation. But above all: how to end all of that.

Then of course there's some room in there for fantasizing about sex and adventure. Still have to stay sane in this mess. ;)

Making dinner for my friends, dancing, watching a movie, working on design materials for upcoming actions, looking up at the stars and succumbing to shuddering awe at the overwhelming beauty of the universe, figuring out how to make myself and life more valuable to the world... or singing Disney songs with my little sister.

You can ask me anything and there is a very high probability that I will answer. And I either answer truthfully or I don't answer.

You want to network with this Organizer of DxE!

Or you want to get to know me as a friend of one kind or another, and have some understanding of (or desire to attain some comprehension of) the following words: Speciesism, misogyny, patriarchy, and privilege. (Especially human privilege.)

Right now I'm interested in making new friends, building activist relationships, and finding people to just let go and have fun with. I don't take my life outside of my advocacy for the oppressed very seriously.

Reiteration: I won't break bread with anyone while they eat the body of somebody who didn't want to die (or other products of sexual exploitation and speciesist violence). To be perfectly clear, that means you eat only plants (vegan) with me.

Before you message me, you should probably ask yourself: If you would rescue a puppy from being beaten to death right in front of you, why not help that animal when she is a pig, when her attacker uses a knife instead of his fists, and when she is out of your sight?

You are also free to add me on Facebook!

And you should NOT message me just to endeavour to put me in my place by informing me, thou supremely intelligent and all-knowing superior white cishet male human, that there is no misogyny in "our" culture and patriarchy is just a thing of the Middle East, or if you're just going to make a joke that has a crying infant getting his head smashed into the concrete on the other end of it. Make a speciesist, arrogant, human-privilege-reeking joke about "bacon" and as far as I am concerned you have willfully renounced your right to bodily autonomy if not life itself. Don't mock those you hurt. (Even better, just stop hurting them and paying other humans to hurt them, and better still, actively stop others from hurting them.)