It’s like I’ve walked into a whole new life in the last two months. Yet–

posted by bfp From the back of the can third from the right: Lightly Sweetened Green Tea with Mint On his trip down from Sri Lanka’s mystical mountain tops, Perrol carries a bamboo basket full of the finest gree tea and min leaves. He also carries with him a secret recipe for the perfect mint [...]

Some firsthand reports of gross policing at SF Pride this weekend, written by two people who are very dear to me, and to movement toward queer, feminist politics that aim toward liberation and an end to all forms of oppressive violence: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Pink Saturday: Party or Police State? Hilary Goldberg: Slaughterhouse Pink Abolition [...]

A few months ago, on a Saturday morning, I met up with a friend/frequent collaborator known in Blog Land as Fabmexicana and her daughter, Amaya, for a walk on a trail at the end of a city street, with a view of Dodger Stadium (which means a view of memories/histories of development and displacement, or [...]

Jess here, wanting to tell you: I have some posts brewing that reflect on some of what’s going on in this contentious — and, I think, important — thread , in the context of some broader conversations about gender, queerness, gender nonconformity, feminisms, difficult discourses and commitments to walking together through them. (I’ve also been [...]

(Re)Thinking Walking seems to have gone mobile this week, with BFP away at a writing program and me in the Bay Area for a bit. A few days ago I was in LA, marking the three-year anniversary of the eviction of the South Central Farmers at the former farm site. And today I am in [...]

You can’t see it in this picture/my camera couldn’t get it, but there is a chain-link fence on the top of this mountain, and it is preposterous — a narrow fenced-in rectangle that has nothing to do with the shape of the rock or the colors of the trees and desert and sky; a flimsy, [...]

I’ve been taking my kids to acupuncture. So far things have worked out very well. We all get into the car after a treatment and there is blessed quiet. Everybody chilling and feeling good in the same way makes for a happy ride back home! I noticed something though. This last Saturday when we were [...]

(Note from Jess:) A couple nights ago, I had dinner and a walk with a rad artist/writer/activist/friend who’s known in some Internet parts as Jesimone. Our conversation at the table and as we moved through a neighborhood that she’d once lived in and that is adjacent to mine was wide-ranging, weaving around food; blogging; queer [...]