Lauren Stower (Luna)
My blogs
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | San Leandro, CA, United States |
| Introduction | On a mission to learn from & teach brilliant Bay Area urban youth A lover of: life • travel • live music • teaching • learning • tarot • records • prison abolition • comiendo alimentos picántes • healing • gardening • organizing • double-features at The Castro • honoring traditions and making new ones • listening to my ancestors wisdom (it is everywhere, always) |
| Interests | purpose • community • positive people • la luna • Critical Resistance • Gonzo journalism • liberation struggles • economic justice • restorative justice • horchata • independent media & music • México • la tierra • gender-bending-queer-politickin-critical-feminist thought • poetree • New Zealand • Thailand • Vietnam • fair trade • organics • Local365 SF art/music collaboration • Freedom fighters • KPFA • Freq Pirate Radio Santa Cruz • community gardens • NOLA |
| Favorite movies | The Godfather. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The Secret of Nimh. Nightmare Before Christmas. Tim Burton flicks. Cry-Baby. Alice & Wonderland. Batman/Batman Returns. Witches. Synecdoche, New York. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Nosferatu. Blade Runner. Render: Ani Difranco. Bio-Dome! Milo & Otis. Motorcycle Diaries. City of God, Best in Show, Pulp Fiction, Benny & Joon, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Zeitgeist: www.zeitgeistmovie.com |
| Favorite music | Bon Iver, Climbing PoeTree, Led Zeppelin, Ani DiFranco, TOOL, The Mars Volta, Vybez Kartel, Mavado, Nina Simone, M1, Dead Prez. Radiohead, Miles Davis, Erykah Badu, Outkast, A Tribe Called Quest, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bootsy Collins, Bjork, Israel "Cachao" Lopez, Tito Puente, Bamboleo, The Pharcycde, Immortal Technique, Notorious B.I.G, Joanna Newsom, Immogen Heap, Muse, Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Tupac, Bob Dylan, Buena Vista Social Club, Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, John Coltrane, Rico Pabone, K'Naan, Omar Rodriguez-López, The Two Eggs Breakfast Combo, The Brass Mafia, Markstep Trio, Jarrett Cherner, Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra, Howard Wiley, The Angola Project, Disappear Incompletely, Faye Carol, Kasey Knudsen, Jeff Marrs, Dayna Stephens, Loren Benedict |
| Favorite books | The Prophet. Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream (H.S. Thomspon). Captain's Verses (Neruda). The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, (Castaneda). Through the Looking Glass: Alice in Wonderland. Are Prisons Obsolete and Abolition Democracy (Angela Y. Davis). The Doors of Perception (Huxley). The Alchemist (Coelho). ANARCHY! (Emma Goldman). Lies my Teacher Told Me. Discipline & Punish (Foucault). Kiss of the Spider Woman (Manuel Puig). The works of Primo Levi. The Mountains of Tibet. Legacy of Luna (Julia Butterfly Hill). The Giving Tree. Ray Bradbury. The Lorax. Poems by Lucille Clifton. Inventing the Savage (Luana Ross). Teaching to Transgress (belle hooks). Manufacturing Consent & COINTELPRO. The Bone People. |