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Tag: LGBTQ+

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.)
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

photo of Zekiah Wright, a Black nonbinary person with short twists and glasses, wearing a grey jacket, white shirt and bow tie. Photo of Stephanie Wade, a white trans woman in a blue patterned dress, sitting in a grey Adirondack chair on a brick patio with a palm tree behind her.

Our Candidates (might) Make History!

You’ve heard all the election recaps right? Democrats did better than expected. Some races still too close to call. No red wave. Blah, blah, blah. Let’s move on. . . . . . . to runoffs. No, not that runoff.

a pair of white hands holidng a scrap of paper with hand-written words that read "This new girl is weird." Background is an open book on a table.

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

Seal Beach pier and blue ocean in the foreground. Beach and snow-capped mountains in the background

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.