Confluence

Reading Time: 2 minutes How many times do they forget to do something before it actually gets done, if they even heard us in the first place?
I get why dudes are all about it because it’s a tool to subjugate women… but the fuck if I will understand why any modern woman wants to keep that shit.

Reading Time: 4 minutes I know you are afraid of these things because we wouldn’t be spending our energy on outrage if we weren’t terrified.
We would, instead, be prepping for a war we know we’d win.
Women cannot lose if they decide to fight until all the old white men are out of office or in the ground.
We hold all the cards.
Every single one of them.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know By: Lisa…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Make no mistake, when a power-play, or an intentional act of exerting perceived dominance is at work, fucking around with someone’s name is the cheapest tool in the box for demonstrating disrespect.

Reading Time: 2 minutes I want to be remembered by the light of a fire that burns on the fuel of all the nice conversations I never had —

–and that is exactly what I want for you too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?