“From the first communications for Re-(w)Rite, Krista and I have been united in a desire to decisively turn away from the traditional narrative of this particular ritual and rewrite it for a 21st (or 22nd?) century society. Casting off notions of virgins and elder men, pagan and the divine, even sacrifice as death came easily to me. It feels somewhat vulgar to admit that it was much more difficult for me to connect to our ecological framework of Re-(w)Rite, even though intellectually and politically I fight to combat climate change. Why do I not feel the pull of Mother Earth? Why does she remain abstract, even as I connect to dance; one of the oldest forms of human-nature communion? To begin to understand my perceived failure, and in order to express through movement, I had to focus in on Earth as Mother as Woman horribly abused. When I think about my own battle with femininity and the desire to imagine new modes of being in the world, I begin to consider how Earth as Mother as Woman also desperately needs newly imagined futures” (Erica Gionfriddo).