Virginia

Teacher / Writer

• Readin & Writin • Belly Dance West African Dance• Mixed Media Art • Mail Art/Sticker Art/Rubberstamp Art• SWIRLinc• Passionate Kisses• Enormous Changes At The Last Moment• Random Travel • Making Racists Uncomfortable • Intimidating Gorgeous Men And Then Denying That I Harbor Such Powers • Laughing Uncontrollably With Friends • Dancing With My 5 Year Old Son!• FAVORITE MOVIES: • Tumbleweeds • Love Sex & Eating The Bones • Chocolat • Next Stop Wonderland • Queen of Hearts • Tampopo • Cinema Paradiso • Baghdad Cafe • The Sum of Us • She Hate Me • Braveheart • Daughters of The Dust • Mississippi Masala • Truly Madly Deeply • The Hunger • BillyJack • Amelie • City of God • Love and Basketball • Big Night • Stranger Than Paradise• Claudine • FAVORITE MUSIC • R&B • Hip-hop • reggaetone • salsa • opera • cabaret • West African • Habib Koite & Bamada • Billie Holiday • Buena Vista Social Club • Marvin Gaye • Amerie • Amadou Diallo & Moustapha Diedhiou (Seringby) • Salif Keita • Youssou N'Dour • Common • The Roots • Talib Kweli • The Gipsy Kings • Samite' • Maxwell • Susannah McCorkle • Massive Attack • Africando • Ibrahim Ferrer • Seal • Al Green • D'Angelo • Res FAVORITE BOOKS: • Mango Elephants in The Sun • A Tree Grows In Brooklyn • I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings • Imani All Mine • Caucasia • Snake Hips • Somebody's Heart is Burning • How De Body • Grandmother's Secrets • The Bone People • Tar Baby • Easy Travel to Other Planets • In Griot Time • Bird by Bird Recipes from The Dump• Star Ledger (poems by Lynda Hull)• Sue Grafton's mystery series• Anything written by Colette, SARK, Elizabeth Berg, Margot Livesey, Sandra Cisneros, Alice Hoffman, Charles Simic, Tim Seibles.