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• Tour de Fat September 4, 2010
  This is a short video as we get ready to start the bike parade in Ft. Collins for Tour de Fat.  Enjoy this little short video! […]
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• Vlogging and Blogging September 4, 2010
  Thanks so much for reading the iRobyn site for so many years!  Every few years, there’s been a change.  Either with theme or content or both!  Now, as 2010 rounds out, there’s going to be some (r)evolution come to the iRobyn site!  Video blogging! I am really looking forward to incorporating the video element to […]
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• Pre-San Francisco (test) Vlog September 3, 2010
  So, I’m trying my hand at Vloging.  This is a short clip that I did w/ Milan, my iPhone!  I am hoping to do some vloging while in San Francisco next week.  Like on the streets and whatnot!  Brilliant, right?! […]
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• Homophobia September 3, 2010
  Unfortunately, we live in a world of hate.  And, sometimes that hatred, whether we recognize it as such or not, lives close to us.  This is my response to your hatred! I think what disturbs me most is that you’re teaching your kid to hate.  All this under the guise of religion, God–Christianity!  And, that […]
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• Quit stalling, Quiznos! Farmworkers’ Human Rights Now! September 2, 2010
  Quit stalling, Quiznos! Farmworkers’ Human Rights Now! Protest & Rally in solidarity with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Friday, October 15, 11:30 -1:00pm outside Quiznos corporate headquarters – 1001 17th St. (17th & Curtis, downtown Denver) In May, Quiznos promised that it would soon be joining in agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Worke […]
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• On turning 34: having a life full of love; being compelled to live September 1, 2010
  I turned 34 in Nashville, TN with a group of LGBTQ folks.  It was the next to last day of this event, and I already had a tremendous summer.  Now, with some new super cool friends, I was rounding out the month of July (my birthday is 7/30) in style:  super queer and swanky–all in […]
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• Traversing el Río: Performing The/My (In)visible Mestizaje Body August 29, 2010
  The following is posted on the PostColonial Networks site as their “launch” post.  If you are interested in this style of academic writing, contact the editors!  They are currently looking for additional posts! A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant […]
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• Packing up Books became a Sacred moment for me August 28, 2010
  Yesterday was a difficult day.  I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.  I had coffee with a friend, finalized a conference paper, ran some errands, and then was home for the day.  I finally decided to wrap up in my favorite blanket and take a nap.  I was hoping that this would help ameliorate […]
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• “To Live in the Borderlands Means You” August 25, 2010
  To live in the Borderlands means you are neither hispana india negra espanola ni gabacha, eres mestiza, mulata, half-breed caught in the crossfire between camps while carrying all five races on your back not knowing which side to turn to, run from; To live in the Borderlands means knowing that the india in you, betrayed […]
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• Connecting the dots August 24, 2010
  It is late in the afternoon on a sunny Denver day.  I woke to rain and cloudy skies.  There was even a fall chill in the air.  As the day dawned, the rain clouds lifted and the sun began to shine.  Now, as I sit and type in my living room, the sun is brightly […]
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