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“…I didn’t even know that people escaped over the mountains or that there was a concentration camp just for women who resisted the Nazis.” “Men tell stories,” I say. … “Women get on with it. For us it was a shadow war. There were no parades for us when it was over, no medals or mentions in history books. We did what we had to during the war, and when it was over, we picked up the pieces and started our lives over”

Vianne speaking to her son from Kristen Hannah’s The Nightingale

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This war on women through abortion laws in the U.S. (and filtering up into Canada), is just a giant temper tantrum from the far right, upper class, aging white men in America that feel emasculated by the #metoo movement. Grow up children. Giving women the human right to govern their own bodies and do what is best for their health and well-being does not take away any rights of your own. A woman should have the basic human right to make decisions about her own body and health. Perhaps instead of punishing women who seek abortions (many of which have been raped and impregnated against their will), you should consider passing laws that decree a rapist as someone who uses their own body as a weapon to assert power, cause harm, and even death to another human being....and punish them accordingly as someone who wields a weapon to cause harm.

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When You Say 'Hillary Would Have Been Worse'—You Sound Ridiculous

Several times a day I meet or encounter people like you. In a conversation about the unquestionably precarious days in this country; someone visibly disturbed by the facts being discussed, matter-of-factly tosses out those words; that sentence that sounds like the earworm of a woefully overplayed pop song, grating upon the ears every time you… Continue Reading When You Say ‘Hillary Would Have Been Worse’—You Sound Ridiculous

“This is all really quite simple: Hillary Clinton wouldn’t have been capable of the malice and malpractice Donald Trump is capable of, simply because she’s a rational, level-headed, intelligent, articulate, faithful, compassionate human being—and he is none of those things.She wouldn’t be having middle of the night Twitter rants.  She wouldn’t be using mass shootings to marginalize Muslims.  She wouldn’t be calling Nazis and racists “fine people.”  She wouldn’t be playing patty cake with Vladimir Putin. (He is terrified of her.) She wouldn’t be attacking political opponent’s gender, national heritage, or physical characteristics. She wouldn’t be emboldening racists to march through streets in the light of day. She wouldn’t be leaving her response to mass shootings, to simply “thoughts and prayers” and more NRA coddling. She wouldn’t be daily tripping over herself for praise and credit and affirmation, like some insecure middle schooler. She wouldn’t still be holding rallies, in a desperate attempt to gather a choir of sycophants to shower her with adulation. She wouldn’t be attacking the integrity of the Free Press, the FBI, or the Judiciary. She wouldn’t be golfing hundreds of her days away at a property she was profiting from. She wouldn’t be stumbling and shoving and faking away moments of international diplomacy, because she lacked basic knowledge of the issues or the ability to be decent.  She wouldn’t be trying to build a wall across our border that she’d lied about Mexico paying for. She wouldn’t be talking about pee tapes and lying about trips to Russia and explaining payoffs to prostitutes. She wouldn’t have had a revolving door Cabinet filled with white supremacists, creationists, and flat-earthers.“

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I'm reading an inspiring story. About a woman who crossed the Australian dessert. All on her own with a dog and a pack of camels whom she trained herself.

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Barbara Kruger. We need you now.

28 years after you made this piece and we’ve gone 12 steps backward. Your work is as relevant today as it was then. It’s 2017, and it saddens me that women still have to fight for autonomy over our own bodies.