Archive for March 6, 2007
Who do you know?
Do you know people who you think I would enjoy talking to? Do you have friends, colleagues, or family across the country? I’m beginning to plan my route, and I need your help! Here is what I’m looking for:
Reproductive justice advocates - organizers, volunteers, political junkies – the people who work legislatively and politically to protect and advance access to reproductive health care.
Sex educators – people who would rather be talking about boundaries, safer sex techniques, and the gender spectrum than pretty much anything else.
Radical activists – people who are working outside the system, exploring radical and revolutionary ways of providing health care, talking about sex, challenging cultural paradigms.
Sex-positive porn sellers – the people who bring open attitudes about sexuality and a lot of lube to the clean, well-lighted sex store in your neighborhood.
Culture-jammers and table-turners - the artists and performers who use their talents to stretch our brains and change the way we talk about sexuality.
Health care providers - the ones on the front lines, working every day to provide reproductive health care.
The Invitation
Are you one of these people? Are you someone else entirely that I would be tickled pink to talk to?
I invite you to meet with me and share your story. I’m interested in knowing what you do and why you do it, how connected you feel (or don’t feel) to a larger movement, and what resources would help you achieve your mission. I would like to share your story through this website, as well as with others that I meet along the way.
My goal is to end the trip with a better understanding of how people across the country are working to promote sex-positivity and reproductive justice. I am particularly interested in talking with people who have traditionally been marginalized from mainstream conversations about sexuality and reproduction – women of color, women in rural areas, immigrant women, low-income women…people who may not identify as pro-choice, or sex-positive, but who are working every day to help women own their bodies and their lives.
I will be traveling between April 15th and July 31st from San Francisco to Boston. I have a tentative route, which you can see here, but I am extremely flexible.
If you, or someone you know, would be interested in meeting with me, please email wanderlustwithrhonda@gmail.com with as much of the following information as you know:
- Who is this fabulous person I should meet?
- Where do they live?
- What do they do?
- Can I contact them directly? If so, what is their contact information?
- Is there anything special I should know about them?
I am also looking for places to stay, particularly in the following cities: Portland, Olympia, Seattle, Vancouver, Missoula, Casper, Laramie, Boulder, Denver, Pueblo, Dodge City, Wichita, Kansas City, Des Moines, Ames, Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Toronto, Buffalo, Albany, Boston.
Whew. That’s a lot of cities.
So if you know people who aren’t involved in the sex-positive, reproductive justice world, but are still generally nice people who might be willing to let me crash on their couch or camp on their lawn, please send them my way!
You can also leave information in the comments if that’s easier. See, again, how flexible I am?
Welcome to the show!
Welcome to Wanderlust with Nora: A coast to coast exploration of politics, sex, and reproductive health care. This April, Rhonda, my bicycle, and I will roll over the Golden Gate Bridge bound for Boston, Massachusetts, via a good part of the United States.
Along the way, we’ll be stopping to talk to advocates, sexuality educators, and other folks who are working for reproductive autonomy, increased access to health care, and combating negative images of female sexuality.
This tour is sponsored by Good Vibrations, my favorite local feminist sex store, and the Center for Sex and Culture, which provides sex positive sex-education throughout the Bay Area through workshops, events, and classes.
On the trip, I’m going to be interviewing people I meet along the way and posting the interviews on this very page. Luckily, you’ve already found me, so you don’t have to worry about missing anything. I’ll be updating as often as I can from the road, but bear with me – there aren’t a lot of wireless networks in Glacier National Park.
