What can they do to you? Whatever they want.. They can set you up, bust you, they can break your fingers, burn your brain with electricity, blur you with drugs till you can’t walk, can’t remember. they can take away your children, wall up your lover; they can do anything you can’t stop them doing. How can you stop them? Alone you can fight, you can refuse. You can take whatever revenge you can But they roll right over you. But two people fighting back to back can cut through a mob a snake-dancing fire can break a cordon, termites can bring down a mansion Two people can keep each other sane can give support, conviction, love, massage, hope, sex. Three people are a delegation a cell, a wedge. With four you can play games and start a collective. With six you can rent a whole house have pie for dinner with no seconds and make your own music. Thirteen makes a circle, a hundred fill a hall. A thousand have solidarity and your own newsletter; ten thousand community and your own papers; a hundred thousand, a network of communities; a million our own world. It goes one at a time. It starts when you care to act. It starts when you do it again after they say no. It starts when you say we and know who you mean; and each day you mean one more. - “The Low Road”by Marge Piercy
#jane 🎥🙉🙈🙊👩🔬💪🎉 (at Hollywood Bowl)
With once-a-century natural disasters raging all around us, maybe it's naive or magical thinking to interpret rain in LA on Rosh Hashana as an auspicious omen for the year ahead, but with this little joy machine around its impossible not to be hopeful. Shana tova u'metuka - wishing us all a sweet and fruitful year. 🍎🍯🌎
Love when my worlds collide for a good cause! The exuberant, intimate, unmissable film @STEPthemovie is in theaters today, and my new team at @21cf_impact has joined forces with my old team at @tumblr to help get the word out. For every #stepislife story posted on Tumblr and other social media through Sunday, 21CF will donate $1 to @stepupwomensnetwork to fund mentorship for high school girls like the ones in the film (up to $25K - more info at link in bio). Most importantly, go see STEP in theaters this weekend - and realize that anything is possible when strong women support each other. 💪👯💪 (& thanks to Tumblr Creatr @_gabriella_sanchez for the awesome original art!) (at Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women)
There is no Planet B. #respectyourmother #parisagreement
Whether you zoom in or out, "somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." 🔬🔭🌎 (h/t @arakatz)
our #marchforscience is closer to home, where we try to make every day #earthday. 🌎 #respectyourmother (at Silver Lake Farmers Market)
O what a rare and beautiful thing to have a day that's exactly the one you needed. #ShabbatShalom
Women of valor, may we find them and raise them and be them and strike with them and wear them! #internationalwomensday 💪 🔴💪🔴
Curling up after a hard day of accompanying me to the polls. 🇺🇸#votingbuddy #electiondayLA #NOonS (at Silver Lake, Los Angeles)
Exactly 365 days ago this magical 🦄 arrived and changed my life. 🎁 #tbt #zrkwrfb 💕 (at Silver Lake, Los Angeles)
Stormy Shabbat. #nopower #LArain (at Silver Lake, Los Angeles)
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty steam. #bringiton (at Micheltorena Steps)
History has its eyes on us - and in LA today love trumps hate as far as the eye can see. Proud of my adopted city! #womensmarch (at DTLA)
Still marching for women's lives 13 years later 💪 #fbf (at The Mall (Washington DC))
Revenge
Since you mention it, I think I will start that race war. I could’ve swung either way? But now I’m definitely spending the next 4 years converting your daughters to lesbianism; I’m gonna eat all your guns. Swallow them lock stock and barrel and spit bullet casings onto the dinner table; I’ll give birth to an army of mixed-race babies. With fathers from every continent and genders to outnumber the stars, my legion of multiracial babies will be intersectional as fuck and your swastikas will not be enough to save you, because real talk, you didn’t stop the future from coming. You just delayed our coronation. We have the same deviant haircuts we had yesterday; we are still getting gay-married like nobody’s business because it’s still nobody’s business; there’s a Muslim kid in Kansas who has already written the schematic for the robot that will steal your job in manufacturing, and that robot? Will also be gay, so get used to it: we didn’t manifest the mountain by speaking its name, the buildings here are not on your side just because you make them spray-painted accomplices. These walls do not have genders and they all think you suck. Even the earth found common cause with us the way you trample us both, oh yeah: there will be signs, and rainbow-colored drum circles, and folks arguing ideology until even I want to punch them but I won’t, because they’re my family, in that blood-of-the-covenant sense. If you’ve never loved someone like that you cannot outwaltz us, we have all the good dancers anyway. I’ll confess I don’t know if I’m alive right now; I haven’t heard my heart beat in days, I keep holding my breath for the moment the plane goes down and I have to save enough oxygen to get my friends through. But I finally found the argument against suicide and it’s us. We’re the effigies that haunt America’s nights harder the longer they spend burning us, we are scaring the shit out of people by spreading, by refusing to die: what are we but a fire? We know everything we do is so the kids after us will be able to follow something towards safety; what can I call us but lighthouse, of course I’m terrified. Of course I’m a shroud. And of course it’s not fair but rest assured, anxious America, you brought your fists to a glitter fight. This is a taco truck rally and all you have is cole slaw. You cannot deport our minds; we won’t hold funerals for our potential. We have always been what makes America great.
-e.c.c.
what she said