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| User: | muse (6587)  her teeth flash fear
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| Name: | disasterpants jones | |||||
| Website: | Numb Magazine | |||||
| Location: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | |||||
| Birthdate: | 09-16 | |||||
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| Bio: | Miss Jewel Blackfeather (Disasterpants Jones, if you will) grew up a mixed-breed wild-child with a penchant for creating in as many ways as possible. Her father is mostly Blackfoot with a little Norwegian, while her mother is Swiss and Dutch with a dash of Central Cherokee, making her a genetic dichotomy. Plains raiders and Vikings fill one side of her lineage, while the other is populated with peacemakers. She’s a bit of both and admits that she likes to claw and bite at convention because it makes her a stronger person. Some people have claimed she’s scary, while others have said she’s the fiercest thing they’ve ever seen. As with everything, she is all of these things and more. Her father was a decorated officer in the Army and a bit of a road warrior besides, so Jewel spent most of her childhood bouncing from one place to the next in a beat-up Ford truck. She's lived in more places than she has letters in all of her names combined (and that's a lot!). Language fascinates her, and she knows how to talk with various accents: Southern, Northern, Eastern, Western, and New Yorkese, as well as a bunch of languages. Her parents owned a ceramics shop in Virginia for a while. At this humble establishment, she learned (through the trial and error of putting different glazes in her hair) the art of camouflage and colour. Her hair is still like Joseph’s multicoloured dreamcoat. By five, she was a truck-stop trickster, midnight dreamer, sofa-screamer, playwright, writer, finger-painter, musician, lover of life, dancer, master flirt, storyteller, folk heroine, and potter. By six, she moved on to concocting mysterious potions from mud and making little boys cry with her kisses and punches. A child prodigy, she had a habit of reading anything she could get her tiny hands upon. She still carries this trait. Scholastic aptitude tests determined her IQ too high for her to ever be cool. Jewel was cool anyway because she didn’t care. During her tumultuous adolescence, she snarled at the patriarchy, played too many instruments in too many bands, drew pictures of spirit animals, prayed for rain and sunshine, dreamed of angel-boys and faery-girls to make love to, and braided feathers into her hair everywhere she went. School was no match for her brains or determination, and she ended up graduating early. By sixteen, she was legally emancipated and making a living on her own. Throughout her first firefly days, she lived with a flamboyantly adorable gay man who insisted he was the king of all gays. Drag queens often performed scenes from Mommie Dearest in her living room. At the old/young age of nineteen-and-a-half, she received a Bachelor’s degree. She simultaneously worked for state government in her home-state, where she gained fine insights on the world of politics, a place that caused her to feel stressed and her eyes to squint. By her mid-twenties, she was pushing through law school and an assured future. Oddly, after getting her master’s degree, she hit the brakes on the direction her future was taking and decided to test her skills as an artist. Since then, she’s been homeless, hopped trains, relied on the mercies of strangers, lived in a commune, played her cello on street corners, had wine and conversation with prominent filmmakers, met angels disguised as regular people, written bratty letters to rockstars, exchanged secrets with everyone's mamas, been all over the world, and burned trails wherever she's gone. Her life has been beautifully strange, and she likes it that way. She's been arrested a few times, and is known for rebellious acts in public that sometimes involve nakedness. That's how anti-cowgirls live. She’s a writer for her beloved Numb Magazine. For Numb, Jewel has covered topics from eating disorders to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and poems, such as an elegy for Gwendolyn Brooks. She also conducts interviews. Some of her recent subjects have been Isabel Allende, Ernie Barnes, Noam Chomsky, Fatboy Slim, Janeane Garofalo, Spike Lee, David Scott Moyer, Yoko Ono, and Floria Sigismondi. Numb was nominated in the Utne Reader under the "Best New Title" category for Utne's independent press and media awards. Some of Numb's other features have been on Christian Bök, Nelly Furtado, Gift of Gab from Blackalicious, Ben Harper, Derrick Jensen, Sarah Jones, Stephen Marshall (of the Guerilla News Network), Graph Nobel, Joss Stone, Dr. Cornel West, and Women in Black. Numb sometimes also gets her into shows as a press-person, where she’s gotten hugs and purrs from Daniel Lanois and Lucinda Williams. She’s impossibly drunk on life and music. Aside of working for Numb, she freelances as a published writer, poet, musician, and painter. Some of her recently published pieces include "Becoming You" at Fresh Yarn, "Spiders: My Friends, My Foes" essay at Personal Journaling Magazine (put out by the editors of Writer's Digest), "It's a Drag" essay at Ruby Slipper, "A Prayer for Mary" essay at Soapbox Girls, "When We Were Fourteen" as an introduction to the Youth Writings section at V.O.I.C.E., the printing of her “Mandala to Mandala” essay in the December 2003 issue of The Chrysalis Reader, and inclusion of her short story "Carving a Woman" in the print anthology, Best Lesbian Erotica 2004. In addition, she’s been a panelist for the Diarist Awards and featured in J-Log's Media Diet and at the Bisexual Resource Center and A Bi-Friendly Place, where her essay "Kiss the Girl" simultaneously appears. Some of her other pursuits include printing of her wicked story “plum pudding” in a print book of X-rated Christmas stories. Currently, she’s preparing for a reprinting of her chapbook; a desert novel, These Silent Deaths; and a book of nonfiction life-vignettes, Twenty-eight Ghosts of Twenty-eight Girls. Her online journal, which has been in existence since 2000, is a monster spawning hate mail and wonderfully weird gifts of tarot card refrigerator magnets and blues music. She's learned the art of spoken word and co-organised Arizona's largest spoken word festival, the Slab City Slam. She spent much of 2006 traveling around the Grand Canyon State performing her spoken word pieces. Recently, she moved from Arizona, the home of her heart. While there, she found herself in a way she hadn't her entire life. She edited several printed texts for a well-known architect and worked in a ceramic studio. She made one-of-a-kind bells and immersed her hands in clay to the wrists every blessed day. She liked this very much, but it was time to expand her horizons and find more pieces of herself. She's taken the things she's learned with her. While she was in the desert, absorbing everything, she learned how to knit and studied photography with a trusty Nikon Cool Pix 950 Digital Camera. Jewel also made semiprecious stone beaded jewelry to sell at markets, galleries, and a website. She learned how to be a bad-ass welder chick. She doesn't regret an ounce of it. She doesn’t need anyone else to complete her, but she used to have secret, soft aspirations of making a messy-haired boy ache for her so much that he thought of her while showering at truck-stops and playing with the silverware at greasy spoon diners. She found him and isn't letting go for anything. She is his backwoods Nefirtiti, sitting on barges of wheat and wood violets, and he is her hooved Pan, singing for her everywhere they roam. He knows how beautiful he is by the look in her eyes as she watches him. She will marry him on a beach in Hawai'i, weeping because it’s been such a long time of waiting for him. They make poems and art, lead remarkable lives together, always innovate however they may, and never slow down. Jewel is as she breathes: open. Make her laugh and you've a loyal friend for life. Earn her scorn with false boasts and claims. She will be your personal thunderstorm, private Mary Magdalene, and favourite mistake. She bites with badger-teeth and sleeps like an August monsoon. Let her live. Her skin is made of rain and sometimes, she dreams ghosts. Her tongue is tempered by kindness, but sometimes too fierce for its own good. Be gentle. She's got a crush on everyone she meets and thinks life likes her, too. Also, she doesn't usually talk about herself in the third person, but this is a bio, so she'll do it while she can. ------- I Am Currently Devouring: • The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky | |||||
| Memories: | 476 entries | |||||
| Pictures: | fewer than 10 public | |||||
| Interests: | 139: alison king, anaïs nin, aveda, being bitten, being your favourite mistake, billie holiday, biting, blackfeet, blacksmithing, blood oranges, boetia, boxing, cab calloway, calla lilies, cartouches, ceramics, chrysoprase, creation myths, defying fate, dionysus+the maenads, dizzy gilespie, earth+medicine arts, edible flowers, ernie barnes, ethel+lionel barrymore, faery-kin+mushroom-rings, falconry, fatboy slim, feral storms, fighting for causes, fighting the dying light, finding my whale, fingerpainting, flannery o'connor, flappers+speakeasies, floria sigismondi, flying lessons, folktales, forensic anthropology, fox turquoise, french chocolate advertisement art, fucking the pain away, gravestone rubbings, handwritten prose+skin-scent, hiking through the wilderness, humanitarianism, hyphenating words, isabel allende, italian opera, janeane garofalo, jazz thunderstorms, jean cocteau's orphic trilogy, josephine baker, kainai, kali ma, kickboxing, kissing fingertips, kore, langston hughes, latin-america, lawrence ferlinghetti, living-in-my-own-private-idaho, loki, londinium, louise erdrich, lynxes, makin' p-funk my funk, making out all sweaty, mandalas, miles davis' kinda blue, moctezuma xocoyotzin ii, mushroom hunting, native-american culture, nina simone, noam chomsky, npr, numb magazine, oberon+moon-sorcery, octavio paz just because, opium wars+poppies, ouroboros, pablo neruda, passion plays of christus, personal ferocity/velocity, peruzzi, piegan, plath's torments, pottery, primeval civilisations, quai d'orsay cigars, ragnarok, raptor rescue+study, reading+smelling books, rebirth, rediscovering childhood, resurrecting mozart, rising from the ashes, risking everything, robbie robertson, romanticism, sacred king myths, sacred prostitutes, salem theories, sanctuaries+temples, sandra cisneros, sanskrit, sappho, sarah bernhardt as mélissinde, satyrs+pan, sea-life+mermaidery, selene+oracles, sex-goddess dancing, sexology, sherman alexie, sinopia frescoes, sirenis, spike lee, spiritualism+soul-nourishment, steamboat gothic, suddenly mexico, tangled cottonwood roots, the classics, the harlem renaissance, the karnak sphynx, the raindance, the trouvère, thelonious monk, thorns+thistles, thrift store bargains, victoriana, violet flower jelly, vladimir nabokov, volunteerism, welding, wet clay, wishing for treehouses, wrist-bites, writing until it bleeds, yoko ono | |||||
| Schools: | None listed | |||||
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