Dear Mayor Greg Fischer, ⠀
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I join thousands of others in asking you to bring posthumous justice to Breonna Taylor, who was shot eight times in her bed by the Louisville Metro Police after they invaded her apartment looking for a drug trafficker already in custody. ⠀
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Tamika Palmer is Breonna’s mother, and her small request in the face of huge injustice is easily within your power as Mayor and human being: “I want justice for her. I want them to say her name. There’s no reason Breonna should be dead at all.”⠀
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As you know, Breonna Taylor was an award-winning emergency medical technician and first responder in Louisville, who loved helping her patients and her community, and who made other people’s lives better. ⠀
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She protected you and your city. Now it’s your responsibility to show her the same respect. ⠀
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With hope, ⠀
Gloria Steinem
Even when abortion was illegal and unsafe, one in three women had one at some time in her life. Now that abortion is safe and legal, a little less than one in four women do. Yesterday, the Supreme Court majority recognized this reality, despite two judges appointed by Trump, the accidental President, who doesn’t give a damn about women and who craves the support of antiabortion evangelicals. And in too many states, there are still travel and money restrictions on a normal and essential part of healthcare. ⠀
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For both women and men, democracy begins with power over our own bodies. We won’t rest until all Americans of every sex, race and income live in a democracy.
I was reluctant to speak at the Democratic Convention in 1972. But by the end, I had begun to learn how I myself could be more effective. I was learning that the best way to help was to influence the movements that embody the principles you believe in, and to use those movements to back the candidates who will deliver on those principles.
Voting is not the most we can do to assert our influence, but it is certainly the least. There are less than 100 days until Election Day. Do you know about vote by mail? Find all the tools you need to request a #VoteByMail ballot and to encourage others to help make every last vote count @votesaveamerica.
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I was reluctant to speak at the Democratic Convention in 1972. But by the end, I had begun to learn how I myself could be more effective. I was learning that the best way to help was to influence the movements that embody the principles you believe in, and to use those movements to back the candidates who will deliver on those principles.
Voting is not the most we can do to assert our influence, but it is certainly the least. There are less than 100 days until Election Day. Do you know about vote by mail? Find all the tools you need to request a #VoteByMail ballot and to encourage others to help make every last vote count @votesaveamerica.
Link in bio.
I was reluctant to speak at the Democratic Convention in 1972. But by the end, I had begun to learn how I myself could be more effective. I was learning that the best way to help was to influence the movements that embody the principles you believe in, and to use those movements to back the candidates who will deliver on those principles.
Voting is not the most we can do to assert our influence, but it is certainly the least. There are less than 100 days until Election Day. Do you know about vote by mail? Find all the tools you need to request a #VoteByMail ballot and to encourage others to help make every last vote count @votesaveamerica.
Link in bio.
I have been taking some time to think about John Lewis, and the indelible lessons, good trouble, and change he brought to the world. I have included here a long ago memory. He was a great person before he was a Great Man.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
I have been taking some time to think about John Lewis, and the indelible lessons, good trouble, and change he brought to the world. I have included here a long ago memory. He was a great person before he was a Great Man.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
I have been taking some time to think about John Lewis, and the indelible lessons, good trouble, and change he brought to the world. I have included here a long ago memory. He was a great person before he was a Great Man.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
I have been taking some time to think about John Lewis, and the indelible lessons, good trouble, and change he brought to the world. I have included here a long ago memory. He was a great person before he was a Great Man.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
I have been taking some time to think about John Lewis, and the indelible lessons, good trouble, and change he brought to the world. I have included here a long ago memory. He was a great person before he was a Great Man.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
I have been taking some time to think about John Lewis, and the indelible lessons, good trouble, and change he brought to the world. I have included here a long ago memory. He was a great person before he was a Great Man.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons
In this time of global, racialized, and intimate trauma, I think about the words of Judith Herman in Trauma and Recovery, the most helpful book about all kinds of trauma I’ve ever read: “Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims.” With hope,
Gloria
For women especially, democracy begins with the right to decide the future of our own bodies, yet an anti-choice majority of Texas state legislators are depriving women of this basic right. Though the huge majority of Americans and Texans believe that reproductive decisions should be made by women and our physicians, not by politicians, only a turn-out at the polls in the upcoming elections can bring back democracy – including the representation of Texas in the U.S. Senate.
Meet some of the women banding together to ensure reproductive rights and access to healthcare, protect the rights of DACA recipients, and to end the cruelty of family separation at the border.
Together, you and I can help them flip the Texas House and a U.S. Senate seat Democratic at last on November 3rd.
I am proud to support each and every one of them. You will be, too.
@akilahbacy – an attorney and Spelman College graduate who spends her free time serving as a pro-bono immigration attorney for children seeking asylum in the United States, mentoring in her local school district, teaching adult literacy, ESL, and legal rights classes in the West Houston community, and as a Sunday school teacher.
@kekefortexas – A veteran and community leader passionate about helping young women raised in low income neighborhoods to seize their dreams and rise above their circumstances.
@celinafortexas – A journalist and nonprofit founder focused on expanding Medicaid and equitably and fully funding schools and teachers while supporting family businesses.
@sarah.demerchantforstaterep26 – A former CTO advocating for equal pay and fighting for more investment in prevention, rehabilitation and fairness in the judicial system.
@mjfortexas – A combat veteran and working mom aiming to unseat Senator John Cornyn.
For women especially, democracy begins with the right to decide the future of our own bodies, yet an anti-choice majority of Texas state legislators are depriving women of this basic right. Though the huge majority of Americans and Texans believe that reproductive decisions should be made by women and our physicians, not by politicians, only a turn-out at the polls in the upcoming elections can bring back democracy – including the representation of Texas in the U.S. Senate.
Meet some of the women banding together to ensure reproductive rights and access to healthcare, protect the rights of DACA recipients, and to end the cruelty of family separation at the border.
Together, you and I can help them flip the Texas House and a U.S. Senate seat Democratic at last on November 3rd.
I am proud to support each and every one of them. You will be, too.
@akilahbacy – an attorney and Spelman College graduate who spends her free time serving as a pro-bono immigration attorney for children seeking asylum in the United States, mentoring in her local school district, teaching adult literacy, ESL, and legal rights classes in the West Houston community, and as a Sunday school teacher.
@kekefortexas – A veteran and community leader passionate about helping young women raised in low income neighborhoods to seize their dreams and rise above their circumstances.
@celinafortexas – A journalist and nonprofit founder focused on expanding Medicaid and equitably and fully funding schools and teachers while supporting family businesses.
@sarah.demerchantforstaterep26 – A former CTO advocating for equal pay and fighting for more investment in prevention, rehabilitation and fairness in the judicial system.
@mjfortexas – A combat veteran and working mom aiming to unseat Senator John Cornyn.
For women especially, democracy begins with the right to decide the future of our own bodies, yet an anti-choice majority of Texas state legislators are depriving women of this basic right. Though the huge majority of Americans and Texans believe that reproductive decisions should be made by women and our physicians, not by politicians, only a turn-out at the polls in the upcoming elections can bring back democracy – including the representation of Texas in the U.S. Senate.
Meet some of the women banding together to ensure reproductive rights and access to healthcare, protect the rights of DACA recipients, and to end the cruelty of family separation at the border.
Together, you and I can help them flip the Texas House and a U.S. Senate seat Democratic at last on November 3rd.
I am proud to support each and every one of them. You will be, too.
@akilahbacy – an attorney and Spelman College graduate who spends her free time serving as a pro-bono immigration attorney for children seeking asylum in the United States, mentoring in her local school district, teaching adult literacy, ESL, and legal rights classes in the West Houston community, and as a Sunday school teacher.
@kekefortexas – A veteran and community leader passionate about helping young women raised in low income neighborhoods to seize their dreams and rise above their circumstances.
@celinafortexas – A journalist and nonprofit founder focused on expanding Medicaid and equitably and fully funding schools and teachers while supporting family businesses.
@sarah.demerchantforstaterep26 – A former CTO advocating for equal pay and fighting for more investment in prevention, rehabilitation and fairness in the judicial system.
@mjfortexas – A combat veteran and working mom aiming to unseat Senator John Cornyn.
Only twelve Tuesdays stand between us and November 3rd. There has never been so much at stake, and also so much to hope for. Now is the time to channel our outrage into outrageous acts – register, request and research your ballot, donate, volunteer, VOTE. If we don’t vote… we don’t exist.
Every Tuesday, I will be highlighting some candidates who deserve our support. I know they will represent the best in us and fight for all of us.
First up – North Carolina.
Registration deadline: Oct. 9
Early voting: Oct. 15 – Oct. 31
Link in bio.
@friendsforbatch – a social worker, child-welfare advocate, attorney, and cancer survivor working to ensure all North Carolinians have access to affordable healthcare and the right to clean air and safe drinking water.
@kimberlyhardync – a renowned expert on the role of religion and spirituality in social work and an educator at Fayetteville State University fighting for civil and reproductive rights.
@deaconomist – an entrepreneur and nonprofit leader focused on supporting small and family-owned businesses and leading North Carolina towards a more sustainable future.
@rickyhurtadonc – a first generation college student fighting to expand access to quality public education and college opportunity.
@calfornc – a veteran, state senator, and advocate for landmark clean air legislation, land preservation, and campaign finance reform fighting to unseat Thom Tillis.
Only twelve Tuesdays stand between us and November 3rd. There has never been so much at stake, and also so much to hope for. Now is the time to channel our outrage into outrageous acts – register, request and research your ballot, donate, volunteer, VOTE. If we don’t vote… we don’t exist.
Every Tuesday, I will be highlighting some candidates who deserve our support. I know they will represent the best in us and fight for all of us.
First up – North Carolina.
Registration deadline: Oct. 9
Early voting: Oct. 15 – Oct. 31
Link in bio.
@friendsforbatch – a social worker, child-welfare advocate, attorney, and cancer survivor working to ensure all North Carolinians have access to affordable healthcare and the right to clean air and safe drinking water.
@kimberlyhardync – a renowned expert on the role of religion and spirituality in social work and an educator at Fayetteville State University fighting for civil and reproductive rights.
@deaconomist – an entrepreneur and nonprofit leader focused on supporting small and family-owned businesses and leading North Carolina towards a more sustainable future.
@rickyhurtadonc – a first generation college student fighting to expand access to quality public education and college opportunity.
@calfornc – a veteran, state senator, and advocate for landmark clean air legislation, land preservation, and campaign finance reform fighting to unseat Thom Tillis.
Only twelve Tuesdays stand between us and November 3rd. There has never been so much at stake, and also so much to hope for. Now is the time to channel our outrage into outrageous acts – register, request and research your ballot, donate, volunteer, VOTE. If we don’t vote… we don’t exist.
Every Tuesday, I will be highlighting some candidates who deserve our support. I know they will represent the best in us and fight for all of us.
First up – North Carolina.
Registration deadline: Oct. 9
Early voting: Oct. 15 – Oct. 31
Link in bio.
@friendsforbatch – a social worker, child-welfare advocate, attorney, and cancer survivor working to ensure all North Carolinians have access to affordable healthcare and the right to clean air and safe drinking water.
@kimberlyhardync – a renowned expert on the role of religion and spirituality in social work and an educator at Fayetteville State University fighting for civil and reproductive rights.
@deaconomist – an entrepreneur and nonprofit leader focused on supporting small and family-owned businesses and leading North Carolina towards a more sustainable future.
@rickyhurtadonc – a first generation college student fighting to expand access to quality public education and college opportunity.
@calfornc – a veteran, state senator, and advocate for landmark clean air legislation, land preservation, and campaign finance reform fighting to unseat Thom Tillis.
Only twelve Tuesdays stand between us and November 3rd. There has never been so much at stake, and also so much to hope for. Now is the time to channel our outrage into outrageous acts – register, request and research your ballot, donate, volunteer, VOTE. If we don’t vote… we don’t exist.
Every Tuesday, I will be highlighting some candidates who deserve our support. I know they will represent the best in us and fight for all of us.
First up – North Carolina.
Registration deadline: Oct. 9
Early voting: Oct. 15 – Oct. 31
Link in bio.
@friendsforbatch – a social worker, child-welfare advocate, attorney, and cancer survivor working to ensure all North Carolinians have access to affordable healthcare and the right to clean air and safe drinking water.
@kimberlyhardync – a renowned expert on the role of religion and spirituality in social work and an educator at Fayetteville State University fighting for civil and reproductive rights.
@deaconomist – an entrepreneur and nonprofit leader focused on supporting small and family-owned businesses and leading North Carolina towards a more sustainable future.
@rickyhurtadonc – a first generation college student fighting to expand access to quality public education and college opportunity.
@calfornc – a veteran, state senator, and advocate for landmark clean air legislation, land preservation, and campaign finance reform fighting to unseat Thom Tillis.
Only twelve Tuesdays stand between us and November 3rd. There has never been so much at stake, and also so much to hope for. Now is the time to channel our outrage into outrageous acts – register, request and research your ballot, donate, volunteer, VOTE. If we don’t vote… we don’t exist.
Every Tuesday, I will be highlighting some candidates who deserve our support. I know they will represent the best in us and fight for all of us.
First up – North Carolina.
Registration deadline: Oct. 9
Early voting: Oct. 15 – Oct. 31
Link in bio.
@friendsforbatch – a social worker, child-welfare advocate, attorney, and cancer survivor working to ensure all North Carolinians have access to affordable healthcare and the right to clean air and safe drinking water.
@kimberlyhardync – a renowned expert on the role of religion and spirituality in social work and an educator at Fayetteville State University fighting for civil and reproductive rights.
@deaconomist – an entrepreneur and nonprofit leader focused on supporting small and family-owned businesses and leading North Carolina towards a more sustainable future.
@rickyhurtadonc – a first generation college student fighting to expand access to quality public education and college opportunity.
@calfornc – a veteran, state senator, and advocate for landmark clean air legislation, land preservation, and campaign finance reform fighting to unseat Thom Tillis.
Only twelve Tuesdays stand between us and November 3rd. There has never been so much at stake, and also so much to hope for. Now is the time to channel our outrage into outrageous acts – register, request and research your ballot, donate, volunteer, VOTE. If we don’t vote… we don’t exist.
Every Tuesday, I will be highlighting some candidates who deserve our support. I know they will represent the best in us and fight for all of us.
First up – North Carolina.
Registration deadline: Oct. 9
Early voting: Oct. 15 – Oct. 31
Link in bio.
@friendsforbatch – a social worker, child-welfare advocate, attorney, and cancer survivor working to ensure all North Carolinians have access to affordable healthcare and the right to clean air and safe drinking water.
@kimberlyhardync – a renowned expert on the role of religion and spirituality in social work and an educator at Fayetteville State University fighting for civil and reproductive rights.
@deaconomist – an entrepreneur and nonprofit leader focused on supporting small and family-owned businesses and leading North Carolina towards a more sustainable future.
@rickyhurtadonc – a first generation college student fighting to expand access to quality public education and college opportunity.
@calfornc – a veteran, state senator, and advocate for landmark clean air legislation, land preservation, and campaign finance reform fighting to unseat Thom Tillis.
My favorite part of Ms. Magazine was receiving letters from readers, and that carried over into my life outside of the magazine as well. Dear… has reminded me how much those letters have always meant to me. Watch and you’ll see why. All episodes of Dear… are streaming for free on the @appletv app.
My favorite part of Ms. Magazine was receiving letters from readers, and that carried over into my life outside of the magazine as well. Dear… has reminded me how much those letters have always meant to me. Watch and you’ll see why. All episodes of Dear… are streaming for free on the @appletv app.
We must not only vote, but fight to vote. @MichaelStarsInc has collaborated with @votolatino, @BlackVotersMtr, and @WeAreMarchOn to put #TheTeeInVote. $50,000 of sales will benefit the incredible work these organizations are doing to ensure all voices are heard in this election.
