Hey, folks! How was your weekend??? I had a BLAST here in Chicago. The weather is finally heating up, and there are so many events to attend On Saturday, The Red Pump Project hosted a meetup/fundraiser at the lovely Three Peas Art Lounge. The event was designed to raise funds for the Chicago Women’s AIDS Project AND welcome the beautiful Afrobella to Chicago. Let me just tell you all that we had a ball mixing [...]

The Red Pump Project will be hosting a meetup/fundraiser/welcome party here in Chicago on June 20th. The event is a fundraiser for Chicago Women’s AIDS Project along with a welcome to Chicago partay for the amazing blogger behind Afrobella.com. If you’ve been keeping up with Bella, then you know that she recently moved from the M-I-A-Yo to Chicago! South Loop gem, Three Peas Art Lounge, will play host to the event and we are looking [...]

On Saturday, I had the pleasure of hosting my favorite ladies for my Johnson and Johnson Cause Party. The idea behind the event was to gather my girlfriends for food, drinks, laughter, and, of course, a great cause. My ladies gathered at my place around 1:30p, began introducing themselves, and started digging into the snacks! For all of my Chicagoans, if you have not had the fresh salsa and guacamole from Hyde Park Produce (1226 [...]

Hey, hey, hey! How’s everyone been doing?  It’s been busy, busy, busy here in Chicago and I think the fantastic weather has had something to do with it! Here’s my mini-recap of what’s been happening in my world: I started bikram yoga classes on Thursday! If you haven’t heard of it, bikram is yoga in a room heated to 105 degrees. Yes, I’m absolutely serious. I’ve already taken two classes and must say that I’m [...]

Good news, folks! We now have 65 blogging chicas participating in the Red Pump Project’s “Rock the Red Pump” campaign! Whoo hoo!!! You’ll notice that the icon is now hanging out beautifully in my sidebar. Isn’t she pretty??? Also, we’ve launched The Red Pump Project blog. Long after March 10th, we want that site to be a resource of information and news related to HIV/AIDS and women! So, check it out One more thing…! In [...]

I know my first post is super late, but I’ve been volunteering at the MS Society all day. Well, at least, for the better part of the day…Anyways, I just walked in the door and have a couple of quick notes to mention! So far, 60 female bloggers have signed up to Rock the Red Pump on their blogs!!! Yay…That’s an amazing response within 3 days, so thank you to everyone who’s signed up and/or [...]