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(re)thinking walking: Jess’s walk one « (re)thinking walking — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:14 +0000

[...] health and dis/ability, about class and gender and perfectionism, etc. And then last Monday I read BFP’s first-walk post, and I thought to myself, She just went right to Sacagawea. No way I’m gonna follow that with [...]

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By: Meep

Meep — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:22:33 +0000

S’ok – I’m uncolonizing Portland, OR. White men may have driven out the brown people, but we’re slowly inching back

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links for 2009-01-31 « The Mustard Seed — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:02:05 +0000

[...] flip flopping joy » Blog Archive » (re)thinking walking: Walk One Oddly enough, the achievement of Sacagawea is not so much that she did what she did–but that she did it while existing at the same place so many of us are at today–disabled, gendered, criminalized, abused, raped, in pain, absent of family and far away from a land that we’ve been forcibly removed from." (tags: blog northamerica history) [...]

By: bfp

bfp — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:29:43 +0000

but when you have been through a lot and you need to sift through the heavy layers of the past and choose for yourself what you intend to keep and what you can disregard.

soooo sooo soo true.

By: JustMe

JustMe — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:04:37 +0000

thank you for this. so good.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:27:07 +0000

I think questions come not only in the beginning of something, but when you have been through a lot and you need to sift through the heavy layers of the past and choose for yourself what you intend to keep and what you can disregard. Simply put, I think it keeps with aging reflection. You don’t just ask “questions” (who what when where why), I see you as using language as a shovel – organizing, piling, sorting – for all the good soil you’ve seen and experienced.

It’s hard work to ask the strong questions, the ones that lead us somewhere. And when those kinds of “questions” come with life experience, it only makes it all the more arduous.

By: Chuckie K

Chuckie K — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:51:05 +0000

Said it before and I’ll say it again right now. One good question is more valuable than ten good answers.

By: bfp

bfp — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:50:08 +0000

@ lisa–I think so too. You know–I’ve noticed that for a while now, the majority of my writing seems to be freaking questions. It’s sorta irritating to me because I want to make solid heavy statements–and all I can come up with are 5thousand questions. But I think when I’m at the stage I’m at–when people in general are at that beginning stage–questions are the most important thing we can do–come up with thousands of questions and figure out which ones are important to answer-

EVERYTHING needs to be up to the challenge of questions–if something’s not–then it needs to go, you know?

I don’t know which ways my movements are my own. I’m still thinking that one through. I think it’s the one I’m really working with/meditating with–the one I’m starting with.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:40:03 +0000

If we allow Sacagawea the complexity of her humanity, we see that the question about her is not so much, was she a heroine (she was) as the U.S. government and many invested in feminist icons would have us believe, but rather instead– in what way was her movement her own?

Can we all attempt to ask that question of ourselves too? The process would be incredible.