In 2008 I went to New Hampshire for a month to work on the Obama campaign.  I made friends, I learned a lot.  I am going back.  This falls into the category of “ride” in the title of my blog.  I am saddling up, picking up the reins.

It is important to me to show up and stand up for something that I feel to be this important.  It is important to me to walk the walk.  I have two daughters.  I am doing it for them.  I am doing it for myself as a gay woman.  I cannot bear the idea of scaling back any kind of human rights, of “othering” anyone.  I find it heinous to think of reversing the social justice gains of the past four years.  It is unimaginable to think of reversing ourselves , as women, to once again being regarded by insurance companies as being a “pre-existing condition” on the basis of having a uterus.  No thank you.

So in ten days, I will hit the road.  I will be posting from the road.  I will have stories.  Stay tuned.