c.j.

My blogs

Blogs I follow

About me

Location DC metro, United States
Introduction an echo-boomer on a mission to change the world through culturally-responsive education, compassion, and skilled use of Web 2.0(+) technology. ...did i mention i'm actually going to do it? [this is in desperate need of updating! 2010.03.28]
Interests education, progressive education, pedagogy, critical pedagogy, language instruction, progressivism, alternative schools, charter schools, virtual schools, GLBTQ Online High School, web 2.0, Creative Commons, fair use, copyright, copyleft, free culture, podcasts, grammar, language, languages, linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, "big words", bilingualism, bidialectism, biculturalism, Spanish, Spanglish, English, ASL, American Sign Language, sign language, deaf culture, indigenous cultures, American Indian issues, Native issues, Latina/o Studies, Latin@ Studies, American Indian Studies, Native American Studies, LGBT Studies, Queer Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, normativity, non-normativity, critique, cultural compentency, human rights, social justice, feminism, community organizing, issue-based organizing, communities, "home", friends, family, families, relationships, sexuality, sexual health, love, desire, queers, queerness, "acceptability", "respectability", positivity, negativity, punk, punks, subcultures, hair dye, tattoos, piercings, tea, art, design, visual culture, media, film, movies, music, DIY, cooking, gardening, buddhism, meditation, syncretism, the Metro, WMATA, public transportation, traveling, DC
Favorite Movies V for Vendetta, The Fifth Element, Stranger than Fiction, Before Night Falls, I am Legend, What's Cooking?, Shaun of the Dead, Across the Universe, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, Ocean's 11, Ocean's 12, Ocean's 13
Favorite Music Gogol Bordello, Franz Ferdinand, the Killers, Everclear, P!nk, Electric Six, Vagiant, Beastie Boys, fly yvonne o^2 etaghene, bhangra, klezmer, salsa, rockabilly, lounge music, music i can dance to, movie soundtracks
Favorite Books Invisible Man by Ellison, Living in Spanglish by Morales, Trans Liberation by Feinberg, Genderqueer ed. by Wilchins, Hitching Rides with Buddha by Ferguson, Teaching to Change the World by Oakes, ...

If you were a wrestler, what would be your finishing move?

"let's hug it out." or, something involving 'spirit fingers', 'jazz hands', or snapping fiercely.