lost-capella

By Samara Steele Amy doesn't tend to wear clothes. When I first moved into Bird House, a co-op on the Berkeley-Oakland border, I was a bit startled whenever I encountered Amy's curvy, bare, tattooed body passing me in the hall, washing dishes, sitting down for dinner--completely exposed, no shame, not a quiver of fear. It took me a few weeks to get used to my new housemate, and to realize that, for Amy, being naked isn't about sex or being sexualized. She simply isn't ashamed of her body so she doesn't hide it. So, a few weeks ago, Amy was volunteering at the Occupy San Francisco kitchen, ladling baked beans onto the plates of hungry occup

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I've begun work as a Production Assistant on a documentary film.  The film is about people with paranoid schizophrenia. I am writing my MFA thesis this summer.  It is a book length memoir.  If all goes well, I'll receive my graduate degree in the fall, certifying me to teach at a college level. I'll be moving to San Fransisco in the winter.  There, me and some friends hope to start an art collective.  There will be music makers, writers, and visual artists, creating lovely things together and separately under the same roof. In San Fransisco, I will teach creative writing to community college students. I am 26 years old.  For the first tim