Mason J. is an Uninsured 20-something Queer, Jewish, Person Of Color, and Liberal Arts, State University & Community College Drop-Out who was raised by a Single Adoptive Mother/Community Organizer in San Francisco during the Crack and AIDS Epidemics of the Late 80s-Early 90s.

As a Teen he spent most of his time ditching academic classes at School of The Arts, Getting shoved around by Police at Social or Political Protests, Tagging up MUNI busses/Cleaning Graffiti, Freestyling/Performing Slam Poetry, Stressing the “Option of Adoption”, and doing Community Work in his Native Mission, Fillmore, & Western Addition Neighborhoods.

He currently resides in SF & Portland where he pursues his Joie de vivre via: Ball Culture, Visual Journalism, Music, Writing, Dance, Party Promotion, Public Relations, Activism, Existentialism, Self-Therapy, Battling any and all forms of Oppression…and obsessively updating his Tumblr.