I’ve seen a few calls on social media for people to offer redemption and acceptance to MAGA voters who may feel like they’ve made a mistake and who may feel like they want to help remove Trump or Musk or whoever is actually president from office. These calls ask us to prepare ourselves to “welcome…
Do not go gently
I wrote to my senators and congressman today. It was challenging to boil the issues down to a brief message because in the last two weeks, literally every institution and value in this country has been bludgeoned. To add insult to injury, the Democrats – who helped kill the Harris campaign with an insistence on…
Looking ahead, and to each other
Many of us are terrified right now. Maybe we’re terrified because either we or our loved ones are threatened by as-of-yet unknown but definitely brutal immigration enforcement and restrictions that we know will be coming, or by inevitable laws that will ban the right to be who we are and to love who we love….
Well.
Obviously, I didn’t get quite the start on this project as planned. It doesn’t seem like it’s been nine months since I sprouted this grand idea. Wow, look at the time. Like so many others, the ramp-up to the election was generating the same kind of stress that we experienced from 2017 – 2021. Keeping…
Origin story
It’s not exactly news to anyone that the notion of femininity has been used as both an ideal and as a pejorative for generations. As an ideal, it’s forced on people born in female bodies from the time they enter the world, insisting on frailty, silence, and obedience in return protection. On the flip-side, it’s used as an insult – usually to men – with a guarantee of both verbal and physical abuse as a result.