A familiar face! Maryann Aguirre, from Ovarian Psyco-Cycles, sat on the “Advocacy Through a Gender Lens” panel at the National Bike Summit, and is the subject of this beautiful music video for “Mujer Soy” by Las Cafeteras, remixed by Yukicito. If you have five minutes… no, you need to make Continue Reading →
March is ALL Women’s Herstory Month. To celebrate International All Women’s Day, Grease Rag got together for a WTF-Only ride! Hub Bike Co-op- Oak St Eighteen of you came out to ride with us, on a beautiful, sunny, warm day! We started at the Hub at Oak Street, which hosts Continue Reading →
By Tina Marie Whittaker Thank you! I appreciate all of the people that donated money. It was very kind and allowed me to go to DC. Such generosity! Washington DC I thought DC was amazing! The bike share was very well put together. The cross walk signals were long so Continue Reading →
By Alisa As winter in Minnesota is quickly drawing to a close (although I know Minnesota well enough to not put the winter bike away quite yet), I thought this would be a good time to share some random thoughts on my first winter bike commuting. I’ve been a bike Continue Reading →
Way back in November 2014, on a balmy sunshiny afternoon before a single snowflake fell, Grease Rag hosted their 6th Annual Winter Skill Share at the beautiful Upper Blake School. We heard the experiences of winter biking from different WTF perspectives, sharing excitement and confidence with riders, gearing up to Continue Reading →
By Lee Penn Woke up this morning and saw ONE DEGREE as our local temperature – with a “feels like” in the neighborhood of minus ten or fifteen…. BUT I was itching for a bit of a ride! So – what did I do? If you know me, you probably Continue Reading →
We all make mistakes. We should not be afraid of making mistakes, because learning from these mistakes is how we grow. Race, gender, sexuality… there are many places where I’ve said things that I’ve found out later offended someone, for example using an incorrect gender pronoun. I care about including Continue Reading →
Who Are We? Where Are We Going? An important activity that we did this year in our organizing meeting was to talk about what we value about Grease Rag, and what we commit to doing in order to make Grease Rag all it can be. You can view the entire exercise Continue Reading →
By : Amy K (Read Part 1: Saving Your Skin in Winter) Hello again! I hope that everyone is ready to delve further into the winter skin care discussion with part two of my Saving Winter Skin blog posts. If you missed part one you can read it here. Today’s Continue Reading →
I came upon this article which shows the basic reasons WHY using preferred pronouns is absolutely necessary, no exceptions. Please click through to learn more, I’ve only taken tiny excerpts for a quick read. And after the five WHYs, I’ve included my own five HOWs at the end of this Continue Reading →
