(Ashley writing here)

It's so funny how you can resist getting organized, and then when you actually do it feels so good. Humans are funny creatures. Or I'm a funny stubborn creature.

Anyway. Right before the holidays we got invited to send some Icarista staff to speak at a Feminist Health Gathering in Leeds, England (http://www.feministhealth.org.uk/) on January 19th-21st. In a rapid last-minute organizing spree, some of our consistent funders generously agreed to sponsor the trip, we got in touch with UK allies and activists about the possibility of visiting and doing talks, submitted a workshop proposal to the conference, and got the ball rolling on an unexpected visit to cross-pollinate with folks in Europe!

Now it's going to happen! We leave from JFK airport on Monday night and fly via red-eye into London, Gatwick. I've been spending the afternoon posting our itinerary on the discussion forums and the events calendars, and now all the details seem to be online and viewable.

To check out the events calendar, just click "Events Calendar" on the top right menu of this page.

The narrative summary of our UK trip itinerary is online in the TIP discussion forums here:
https://site.icarusprojectarchive.org/community/discussionboards/viewtopic.php?p=48252#48252

and you can see the google calendar version where we'll be updating various details about times/travel plans as we go along here:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=p45qukjqhrn6uc1tv03mcmt1ek%40group.calendar.google.com

Right now we're in the last stages of finalizing times/venues/train schedules/floors to sleep on and so forth, as well as gathering up our various Icarus materials (readers, posters, flyers, postcards) to bring over to the UK and distribute to folks. Very very exciting! Sarah's a little sick, so she's taking some time to rest and recover, and I'm heading out tonight to see some spoken word and puppet show with some NYC Icarus friends.

Feeling very, very blessed. The dream gets more interesting all the time.

mad love to all,

Ashley