My name is Zinzy Waleson Geene, which sounds like ZIN-zee WHALE-son GREEN if you drop the R.

I am a diary-keeper, designer, and crazy church lady celebrating the slices of life that propel me ever-forward. This website is a quiet street on the Internet; a home for soft stances, lived experiences, and critical notes on the things I hold dear. I’ve been yelling at Internet clouds since 1997.

In Amsterdam I share a shoebox with Lemonade and Anja. Lemonade is a dog, but since we’re a child-free home, she is my daughter. How did I get here? If you’ve never met my life partner, educator and potter Anja, you should. She’s quite something.

I’m an Afropean, queer, neurodivergent first-generation University graduate. I have the immense privilege of waking up every day feeling 8+, with a labrador-like enthusiasm for life. It’s an effective way to make up for what wasn’t.

I’m a lifelong learner, music maker, song writer, photographer, doodler, reader, painter, gardener, and writer. I do my best to align what I do with what I value. I practice a “stop believing, start doing” kind of Christianity.

I’m of São Toméan and Dutch descent, hailing from enslaved Angolan grandparents on one side, and a long line of loud, burgundian band geeks on the other. I grew up in the narrow tail-end of the Netherlands, bike rides away from both Belgium and Germany.

In various forms and frequencies, I’ve been keeping a diary since I was a little kid. You may consider this website an extension of that. I’m an advocate for the IndieWeb, which is a snooty way of saying I think the Internet should be scattered, playful, experimental, personal, and cozy.

My Xhosa name was inspired by Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindziswa. If I had been a boy, you would’ve had to call me Stevie Wonder Waleson Geene.

I’ve been sober since May 2018.