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Reading Time: 3 minutes Women will have to save our democracy because men aren’t going to do it.
Women will have to dismantle both racism and the patriarchy because men aren’t going to do it.
How do we know that?
Because it isn’t fucking done, and it isn’t going to get done while we behave like fragile flowers in a vase on a shelf with an expiration date. We have been the women behind the men fighting for their way of life too long.

editorial news for women

December 10, 2021 Confluence

Men in the U.S. are not going to stop the rise of fascism.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Complaining, no matter how righteous it feels, no matter how loud, or how large your audience is, is not actually taking action.
Processing is important. Process with your people, IRL or online, if you must. Feel your feelings. However, do not mistake rage for action.

Elevate

December 9, 2021 Confluence

Christmas Quit Me Out of Mutual Disdain and the Holidays Have Never Felt More Joyful

Reading Time: 4 minutes This year, sweet baby Jesus, this year is one for the books. Two years of the pandemic with all the death, dying, illness, discord, fear, and fighting…
this year is requiring sacred closure with an urge I have never felt this strongly before. This year wants to be wrapped like a baby and put to bed with a lovingness that heals what it was. 2021 wants to be ritualized before we take the calendar off the wall.

editorial News

November 23, 2021 Confluence

Bad cops get away with murder in exactly the same way Kyle Rittenhouse did – and this is a very, very big deal.

Reading Time: 4 minutes

The court, led by a judge who was clearly sympathetic to Rittenhouse, handed the holy grail state of mind defense to white extremists whose sole purpose would be to impede free speech using deadly force.

Elevate Informed

October 12, 2021 Confluence

Toxic shame is bad, I agree, but shamelessness results in–45.

Reading Time: 4 minutes . I’ll say it again: we’re not all good, and we’re not all bad. No human, philosophy, group, country is all good. If I’m mostly good, should I try to be better? How does that happen if I make sure not to address what’s bad?

News

October 7, 2021 Confluence

CNN: Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election

Reading Time: 5 minutes The series of interactions between the President and Rosen and Donoghue began in mid-December with an Oval Office meeting, included several phone calls and continued through January 3.

Editor Engage

October 7, 2021 Confluence

I’m shouty about this because it’s not about saving fetuses, it’s about controlling women.

Reading Time: 3 minutes There should be no shame placed upon a woman who decides to have an abortion – regardless of her actions that led to being pregnant (sidestepping pregnancy resulting from rape/incest here as we don’t place as much blame or judgment on women in these instances, but yet there’s still some disgustingly enough).

News

September 8, 2021 Confluence

Vox: Democrats have a high-risk, high-reward plan to save Roe v. Wade

Reading Time: 8 minutes The Women’s Health Protection Act, explained.

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September 3, 2021 Confluence

TEN TIPS FOR SURVIVING GILEAD (TEXAS)

Reading Time: 2 minutes Make a plan NOW. Decide what you would do in the unanticipated event you need medical services no longer available in your state. If that plan involves an out-of-state contact you may need to visit for seven to ten days, make that plan with your contact over the phone. Do not make plans via email or text. Your digital records could be subpoenaed in a criminal investigation.

Informed

December 15, 2020 Confluence

NYT – Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You?

Reading Time: < 1 minute These simulated people are starting to show up around the internet, used as masks by real people with nefarious intent: spies who don an attractive face in an effort to infiltrate the intelligence community; right-wing propagandists who hide behind fake profiles, photo and all; online harassers who troll their targets with a friendly visage.

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I think it’s past time for a rise of feminine villain energy