Tim Jones-Yelvington

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Industry Non-Profit
Occupation Program Associate - Crossroads Fund
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Introduction I live and write in Chicago. I work at Crossroads Fund, a public foundation that funds grassroots social justice groups in the Chicago area.

e·jac·u·la·tion n. 1. The expulsion of seminal fluid from the urethra of the penis during orgasm. 2. A sudden short exclamation, especially a brief pious utterance or prayer. "Four figures emerged from this preoccupation with sex…targets and anchorage points for the ventures of knowledge: the hysterical woman, the masturbating child, the Malthusian couple, and the perverse adult." --Michel Foucalt
Favorite Books The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, Paradise by Toni Morrison, An Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis, House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, Dhalgren by Samuel Delany, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel, Love's Body Dancing in Time by L Timmel Duchamp, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, The World According to Garp by John Irving, Wicked by Gregory Maguire, Big World by Mary Miller, Willfull Creatures by Aimee Bender, Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel, Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy