gotagirlcrush: Issue #4: Bukonzo Joint Sarah Genelle // Teddy Ithungu Interview with Sarah Castagnol
gotagirlcrush: Issue #4: Bukonzo Joint Sarah Genelle // Teddy Ithungu Interview with Sarah Castagnola by Christie Maclean // Interview with Teddy Ithungu by Sarah Castagnola // Photos by Christie Maclean & Sarah Castagnola As a thank you for continued support this year, we wanted to share a full interview from our current issue of Got a Girl Crush Magazine to show the breadth and diversity of women and issues covered. Each annual print magazine, closer to an artists’ book, is beautifully designed, features compelling interviews with women who are doing amazing things and filled cover to cover with work by incredibly talented artists. Got a Girl Crush is made by women, about women, for everyone. Please consider picking up a copy at shop.gotagirlcrush.com or from any of our stockists. Nearly four years ago, Sarah and I were first introduced, not because of our (soon to be realized) cast of friends in common, but because we stood at the same bus stop in the morning, with our to go coffees from the same coffee shop, shared a kind smile and were bound to share the bus ride home after work. I don’t know that we actually shared a word until we had dinner at our mutual best friend Anne’s house. From road trips to West Texas and camping in New Mexico to scheming up day trips and travel plans on a daily basis, the three us became nearly inseparable. The instant connection with Sarah is one that anyone who has met her experiences, one that drew us to travel 9,000 miles to visit her in a small village in Western Uganda last Spring. After Anne and I visited Sarah, traveling around the country for two weeks and ending our time in her remote village, Kyarumba, at the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains, it was amazing to see the bonds she had already formed. As she walked us down the dirt road into her village, people greeted her in Lhukonzo, the local language, stating “You have been lost,” which she hears every time she walks back into the village even after just a few days away. As a testament to the connections Sarah creates through her travels, I asked Sarah a few questions about her experience thus far, while she interviews Teddy, a local woman who works at Sarah’s work site, Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Union. Keep reading -- source link