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Tag: Feminism

Some of the posts here are serious considerations of campaign issues. Others are spur-of-the-moment, thinking-out-loud. Still others are just funny. (Well, we think they’re funny.)
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Dear Hollywood.

Dear Hollywood, I’m bored. That’s not why. I love murder tv. Law and Order (all of them). CSI. Body of Proof. While there are thousands of binge-watching possibilities, most of them fall into the same tired, old formulas that reinforce

A photo of four teenage girls, wearing black, leading a march down a street in Nashville, Tennessee. Three girls carry bullhorns. One girl's fist is raised in the air and she is shouting. In the background are other marchers carrying Black Lives Matter signs, and city buildings.

A Rare Window of Clarity

There was a moment last year when the impact of the unspoken white and male supremacy in our society was crystal clear. I was having dinner with a friend/client who is a trans woman and was a candidate for public

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Weird

“I like being weird. People remember you that way. They say ‘Hey, I remember you. You’re the weird one.’” -Sylvia Gordon (aka my mom) circa 1980 You know how there’s one kid in every school that no one likes and

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New Campaigns, New Candidates – Brights Spots in 2022

I won’t lie. June has been a hard month. January 6th Committee hearings that reveal just how close we are to losing our democracy. Supreme Court decisions that recognize more rights for guns than for women. Inflation and looming recession.

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What are we willing to question?

Most of the people I know express unqualified support for Black Lives Matter and defunding the police. Me too. However — and there’s always a but — is that enough? The problem isn’t that our entire criminal justice system is