last updated: 7/27/08. Reply
name: eli★ (elijah pan corbin). Reply
pronouns: preferrably no pronouns (that is, use eli
over and over), but you can probably get away with calling me he/him or they/them. Reply
birthday: 5/16/85. translation for non-math-ers: i'm 23. Reply
marked physical characteristics: i'm the short one with a mohawk and glasses. Reply
piercings: they're all closed up. Reply
tattoos: a small black star on the inside of my left wrist, six gray stars around it wrapped around my hand and wrist forming the little dipper, and the word remember
in my handwriting inside my right wrist. next? well, that's the question. i've been really wanting a another one, recently, but my ideas are still in the fuzzy stage... Reply
i live: at the currently-reincarnating winch-on-green in portland, oregon. Reply
i work: at sisters of the road cafe, where homeless and low-income folks buy or barter for inexpensive, healthy hot meals. www.sistersoftheroad.org Reply
my current projects: living as intensely as i can handle. self-expressing in ways obvious and subtle. squinting into the metaphorical mirror. journaling, when i think to. writing (though really only when something begs to be written). slowly plugging away at a semi-secret zine idea. getting to know folks that have never actually been to smyrc or nbtsc. getting used to this new, calmer feeling about finances. organizing the important pieces of paper that litter my life. trying to give away as many objects as i gather. developing my (admittedly radical) ideas about identities outside the box and anti-oppression. trying to catch up the rate at which i read to the rate at which i buy and borrow books. Reply
right now i'm learning about: the cyclical nature of life and nature. multitasking effectively and sustainably. community, nonviolence, and consensus. the sounds an empty house makes. feeling more and more grown up. the world of health insurance. being an ally. goodbyes. being patient. letting things go unsaid. Reply
-interests (very loosely based on my recently unused lj):- agency, altered books, androgyny, anti-oppression, art, asexualtiy, being different, body issues, c/s/x, coping, diversity, diy, earth, empathy, feeling useful, forests, free will, god, gluesticks, grief work, hope, hugs, insanity, introspection, journaling, libraries, life, lists, little kids, mad pride, mental health, nongenderness, nonviolence, paganism, peer counseling, person-centered planning, photography, poetry, poverty, process, queerness, safety, secrets, self-help, self-injury, silence, smallness, smyrc, space, spirituality, street art, strength, suicide prevention, symbols, therapy, trails, transness, transcendence, watching, wilderness, words, working hard, writing, youth empowerment, zines. Reply
things i have a thing for: stars, ravens, pens, marbles, zines, stuffed animals, typewriters, cool paper, nice pens, wrist bracers. Reply
favorite color: black. though some days you can talk me into a certain shade of green. Reply
books and authors: welcome to the ark (stephanie s. tolan), harry potter (j.k. rowling), a wrinkle in time (madeline l'engle), the teenage liberation handbook (grace llewellyn), catcher in the rye (j.d. salinger), prozac nation (elizabeth wurtzel), the noonday demon (andrew solomon), drag king dreams (leslie feinberg), sabrina ward harrison, dan eldon, sark, jack kerouac, sylvia plath, gary snyder, e.e. cummings, leo lionni, thich nhat hanh, revolutionary voices, calvin & hobbes, the outlaw book of american poetry, emily the strange comics, oh god, did i forget rilke?! rainer maria rilke. Reply
zines: word salad, support, reading this next (sophie), chiaro/scuro (jacqui rae), fruit monster (ainsley yeager), octopus; octopus! (emily heller), lymryck (kevin m. arnold), body language (jessica max
stein), walking the edge of insanity (sascha scatter), the book of ladders (ashley y. mcnamora), diy guide ii, bottom drawer jammed open (dawn), the best girls (sadie). Reply
movies: good will hunting, finding forrester, the x-files, corrina corrina, pump up the volume, the dreamers, x-men 2. Reply
music: veda hille, dashboard confessional, kinnie starr, chris pureka, rent, we're about 9, christmas music, everclear, silverchair, good charlotte, brandtson, gregorian chant, playradioplay!, team dresch, ani difranco, mirah, matchbox 20, death cab for cutie. Reply
school: public k-12, escaped (graduated) around my 16th birthday. since then i'm unschooled, which has included a little community college and lots of late fees at the public library. Reply
i eat: pasta! i mean... vegetarian. soymilk, nutritional yeast, chocolate, decaf iced coffee, sushi, bagels, tofu salad rolls, pad thai, and more pasta. Reply
i miss: camp. qv. the woods, and youth corps. my brother. my cousins. colorado. eugene. you. etc. Reply
i might annoy you by: not capitalizing anything. asking how words are spelled while you're trying to tell a story. telling you where words came from while you're trying to tell a story. fidgeting. talking too fast. Reply
words i like that have my name in them: angelic, aphelion, believer, candlelight, channeling, cornelius, counseling, deliberate, delight, delineation, elijah, eliot, elision, eyelids, feeling, fidelity, firelight, gaelic, helix, javelin, kneeling, labeling, lifelike, likelier, loneliness, madeline, novelist, paralleling, quarreling, reliance, religion, reliving, travelings, unraveling. (thank you, ari.) Reply
items most likely to be found on my person: pens, a blue marble, my wallet, the current month's bus pass, and at least 10 keys. Reply
answers i'm searching for right now: who am i? (especially: if there are labels that i identify with, words i choose to use to describe myself, but there are some things that they are generally understood to mean which don't apply to me... then who am i?) and why is identity so important to me? what drives me? where do i fit into the trans community? where do i fit into the queer community? how do i live a spiritual life? how can i focus more on people and less on the situations i find them in? how can i imbue little interactions with big ideals? how can i find the motivation to really follow through on ideas i have? Reply
make me smile: if you have the time or inclination, please feel free to post writing prompts for me to play with. (either on here or my writing page is fine.) i particularly like rather open-ended beginnings of senteces, like if i were an intention...
or i'm afraid of...
maybe i'll post what i write off of them. :) Reply
ask me about: the inside of my head. my gender or lack thereof. what grown up
might or might not mean. what treatment is like. children. writing. working and living in the woods. school sucking. body issues. Reply
nbtsc: session 2 2002 and 2003; worktrade. session 1 2004, junior staff. session 1 2005, assistant cook. Reply
quo vadis: 2004. 2005, volunteer. 2006. Reply
webpages: Eli. Eli★Writes. http://www.livejournal.com/~summerkid. http://elistar.stumbleupon.com. Reply
contact: eli at nbtscdotorg, which forwards to soulzkid at hotmaildotcom; eli at sistersoftheroaddotorg Reply
comments: or questions, or... Reply
When you breathe in. . . ? Reply
When you look at your feet. . .? Reply
Protection is. . . ? Reply
Have words ever failed you? Reply
Today, those things make me think. If you like, they could be writing prompts, and make you think too! Reply
(Or draw pictures, if words didn't feel right.) Reply
(Or tell your answers to empty air.) Reply
(Or don't answer at all.) Reply
(It's up to you.) Reply
love, (a)me Reply
do you miss me? remember me? you know that you are deeply beloved to me, yes? you belong here. -anonymous, for now Reply
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