I’ve been so busy the past two weeks getting things ready for my trip, I’m starting to think I’ll need this trip just to recover from getting ready for it!

Some updates:

guerilla mama medicine has agreed to post here while I am gone!!!! From her website:

Mai’a is a birth worker, poet, journalist, visual artist, performer, vocalist,dancer, and organizer. She lived and worked in Chiapas, Mexico, Palestine and traveled to the Congo,Uganda, Burundi, and Ethiopia on a research delegation about the effects of war on women. She also worked as the Regional Training Coordinator for a human rights NGO. She founded and directed Cosmic Sun Theatre, an experimental community theatre, art gallery and workshop and has organized and accompanied communities and persons within the domestic urban landscape, engaging in issues including: race, working poor, sex work, prisons, drug addiction, police brutality, and queer rights; she has also organized domestically and internationally around global issues. Born and raised in the Washington, DC area, Mai’a currently resides in Cairo, Egypt with her partner Cal Williams Carpenter and her daughter, Aza Theresa.

I am absolutely *thrilled* to have her here–please give her a good kind friendly welcome!

While i’m gone, Jess and guerilla mama have free reign to do as they please with this site. if they post something you disagree with, as always, feel free to disagree–but be forward that they have my express permission to delete or otherwise get rid of any comments that they feel like for any reason. I support them and their decisions entirely, so don’t bother trying to “go around” them.

you can email this site at rethinkingwalking at gmail dot com if you have questions/comments/etc

Please be forewarned however–it is a community address, so multiple people WILL see your email–AND, if you are writing to me specifically (bfp), I am NOTORIOUSLY horrible at answering email. Frankly it is better to NOT expect a reply than to expect one.

Ok, I think that is all from me at the moment. I will see you in a few weeks–I hope everything in your life goes swimmingly until then!

en lucha!
bfp