Resolved: That I will march with women and like-minded men until:
- Women everywhere receive equal pay for equal work
- Our reproductive rights are no longer threatened
- Women make up 50% of the House AND the Senate
- Women are appointed to the Supreme Court and Federal Judgeships in equal number
- The ERA is passed; Women’s Rights are Human Rights
- Rape, sexual harassment and physical and/or emotional abuse are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law – and YES, we know the difference between a “bad date” “consent,” “enthusiastic consent” and sexual misconduct.
- Women of every color, indigenous Native American and LGBT women are no longer marginalized
- We stop sexualizing young girls in the entertainment industry and end sex trafficking
Yes, I’ve been at this a long time. Writing about it, donating to progressive candidates, arguing with others and begging people to go out and vote for our democracy to survive.
My Nana couldn’t vote when we women won that right because she was married to an “illegal alien” aka an Irishman fresh off the boat. I felt the sting of patriarchy as a college student, unable to purchase that new birth control pill, because I wasn’t married. I marched in 1978 for the ERA, and I marched with Planned Parenthood when the Bride was 12. I marched last year in DC and I marched this year in Nashville. And to be honest, I’m getting pretty damn tired of all this marching.
But the pendulum will swing back, way back. Because we women are a great force, we are life-giving and life-affirming. And we cannot be stopped. Notice our little basketball player in pearls.
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