ABSTRACT
As a teenager, I had two passions: music and political activism. I started college in 1990 and split my time between playing free jazz and protesting the first Iraq War. I eventually decided that I was more cut out for creative work than organizing, but with the implicit belief that creativity and politics are fundamentally interwoven. I saw pursuing a positive, constructive, non-commercial endeavor (such as making, crafting, or teaching) in the context of a cynical capitalist society as an inherently radical action. It’s an attempt at living the embodiment of humanist political values.
