Does the fall seem so busy for you too? When I look at my lists of things “to do” it seems constantly evolving and I need to really take time to acknowledge all the amazing things and relationships I’ve been able to maintain. As we come closer to ending 2025 (six weeks to be exact) I’m in southern CA where it’s currently flooding due to the storms on the West Coast and I said to my partner the other day driving through the storms “things are going to be so green in a week!” A revival. A renewal. A reminder we are alive.

Around this time I offer a Pay What You Can class from the 10 core ones I offer. For the past several years it has been the Abortion in the US class which is the most updated class I offer. This class is being offered for Sunday November 23 and you can sign up now! Thanks to the collaboration with Bridgett Khoury, the queer mixed race Chicana Palestinian-American co-founder of The School of Sexuality Project, we can provide her team and our communities this offering for 2025! This class has been update from 4 hours to 5 as so many changes and new data is emerging regarding the impact of abortion bans in the US. Join us if you are interested for this virtual offering! If you can’t make it and still want to join this class the 2026 calendar of courses and SARs is live!

Here are some updates reminding myself (and you) I’m alive: I have joined the team at Our Bodies Ourselves as a Content Expert in Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships. I join some amazing contributors like homegirl Ellen who I met 25 years ago when we were at NYUs Human Sexuality Masters program, and Chitra who I met via her work as SIECUS CEO, and most especially the homie who invited me to consider joining: Aida. You can read my bio at the website here and see my photo that I intentionally chose to include of me masking to remind people disabled community are everywhere and safety is a collective responsibility.

In addition, I’ve decided to take a sabbatical in 2026 as I did this year in May! What I learned from the May sabbatical was that I need and deserve more time to imagine a world where capitalism is not central, where art and creation is the priority, and where I am practicing what I mentor and encourage others to do: center pleasure, relationships, and yourself (I am a Leo after all). I’ll share more of what this 3 month sabbatical may be like for me and what I plan to do with that time later as I’m still thinking about how that will form.

I do know 2026 will be a challenging year for me / us. It will be my mom’s 10th death day anniversary in March. I’ll be reflecting on the 30 days of lessons I learned in my first year of grieving; I’m considering not only revisiting but also responding to 37 year old Bianca as 47 year old Bianca, what else has changed or shifted? I’m a totally different human being today and still the same broad from 2016. It’s wild. Perimenopause is a bully and I’m in a completely different body than I was a decade ago which has been it’s own challenge to advocate with providers to access HRT (which I finally did successfully last November).

My next post will be my annual report back for transparency where I will share how my economic solidarity model functioned and resulted in collaborations, reflect on some great productions that I didn’t promote very well (I’m a July Leo so that self-promotion common for Leos is not super present in me all the time), and plot and scheme for what’s next.