CURRENT MISSION

To queer all the things. Dance like a banshee. Get everyone into Broad City.

ABOUT ME

Hello! I am a quasi-Canadian Englishman now living in Amsterdam for my master's. I study the effects of queer porn in digital culture, queer theory in all its forms and gender politics in software studies.

PHILOSOPHY

Strangeness and Charm

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I travel and use couchsurfing to that effect, meeting people and having a richer experience. I used to host people in Toronto which was great but cannot really host in Amsterdam.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couchsurfed only a couple of times and have yet to host someone in my house, but I have met and taken a few people around Toronto, but cannot really host at the moment.

Interests

Within my work I focus on queerotica, porn, software, queer theory, gender politics and new media literary formats.

Outside of this I dance to funk music, love cooking, discussing cultural norms, and checking out whatever curious events would be occurring around me ;).

• culture
• dancing
• cooking
• politics
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• communications
• software

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: First Wives Club, V for Vendetta, Amelie, Les Amours Imaginaires, Boys on the side, J'ai tué ma mère, Les Amours Imaginaires, Clueless, Young Adult, I am Love, Frances Ha, The Hunger, Much Ado About Nothing, Only Lovers Left Alive, Holy Motors, Mommy, Prins.

Music: Florence and the Machine, Nerina Pallot, Marina and the Diamonds, Patrick Wolf, Bonobo, XX, Cocorosie, Paloma Faith, Lucy Rose, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Solange, Charlotte Church, Birdy, Portishead, James Blake, The Knife, Laura Marling, The Elwins, Coeur de Pirate, Blakroc, Hypnotic Bass Ensemble, Clean Bandit, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Marina & the Diamonds, Nicole Wray.

Books: Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, Rachel Morgan Series by Kim Harrison, The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan, Dart by Alice Oswald, Othello and above all Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

A arte de rua: Os Gemeos, Nina Pandolfo, Nunca.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in multiple places, for long periods, in different laguages, with different cultures. Brazil, Montréal, Toronto, Lisbon, Marrakech, London, Amsterdam.

Teach, Learn, Share

Fale mais, tê menos.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My cooking skillz.

My dancing.

My long list of weird/amusing porn, youtube videos, tv shows etc.

A chance to make a new friend ;).

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Portugal, United Kingdom