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On the occasion of July 4th
Jul. 4th, 2013 01:33 amA friend of mine is following the Trayvon Martin murder trial, and the racist crap going down there. My roommate and I watched the Wendy Davis livestream in Texas as she filibustered for 13 hours to keep an anti-abortion bill from being voted on in the Texas State Senate--after which the Senate committed voter fraud and voted to pass it anyway. It's been called into contention, but the contention is being contested and--argh. The same week in which the Supreme Court knocked down the Defense of Marriage Act, it also knocked the feet out from under the Voting Rights Act.
Needless to say, there's still a lot of work to do 'round here.
Yet I work in an independant business owned by two women, staffed almost entirely by women, and serving a community made up of many races, nationalities, genders, sexualities, abilities and ages. We work, actively and in whatever ways we can, to keep the vibrancy of this community alive and un-homogenized.
From many, one--but that one can be vast and contain multitudes. E pluribus unum does not have to mean that everyone is the same. It can mean a working unit that draws strength from the differences of its parts. This is my feminism, my work ethic, my patriotism: intersectional. No one can be free until everyone is free. We're not there yet. There are days I want to do nothing more than hide under my covers, for shame in my country and fear of what could happen before we get there. And there are days we feel so close I can taste it.
Today is a day to celebrate how far we've come--and a day to remember how far we have to go.
Happy Independence Day, America.
Needless to say, there's still a lot of work to do 'round here.
Yet I work in an independant business owned by two women, staffed almost entirely by women, and serving a community made up of many races, nationalities, genders, sexualities, abilities and ages. We work, actively and in whatever ways we can, to keep the vibrancy of this community alive and un-homogenized.
From many, one--but that one can be vast and contain multitudes. E pluribus unum does not have to mean that everyone is the same. It can mean a working unit that draws strength from the differences of its parts. This is my feminism, my work ethic, my patriotism: intersectional. No one can be free until everyone is free. We're not there yet. There are days I want to do nothing more than hide under my covers, for shame in my country and fear of what could happen before we get there. And there are days we feel so close I can taste it.
Today is a day to celebrate how far we've come--and a day to remember how far we have to go.
Happy Independence Day, America.