Thoughts on white woman’s safety and protecting black women
Reading Time: 5 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know By: Lisa M. Hayes Several years ago, I
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‘Ketanji” is pronounced ke-tan-ji
Reading Time: < 1 minute Make no mistake, when a power-play, or an intentional act of exerting perceived dominance is at work, fucking around with someone’s name is the cheapest tool in the box for demonstrating disrespect.
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Stop Being Nice
Reading Time: 2 minutes I want to be remembered by the light of a fire that burns on the fuel of all the nice conversations I never had —
–and that is exactly what I want for you too.
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I think it’s past time for a rise of feminine villain energy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Women will have to save our democracy because men aren’t going to do it.
Women will have to dismantle both racism and the patriarchy because men aren’t going to do it.
How do we know that?
Because it isn’t fucking done, and it isn’t going to get done while we behave like fragile flowers in a vase on a shelf with an expiration date. We have been the women behind the men fighting for their way of life too long.
Men in the U.S. are not going to stop the rise of fascism.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Complaining, no matter how righteous it feels, no matter how loud, or how large your audience is, is not actually taking action.
Processing is important. Process with your people, IRL or online, if you must. Feel your feelings. However, do not mistake rage for action.
Christmas Quit Me Out of Mutual Disdain and the Holidays Have Never Felt More Joyful
Reading Time: 4 minutes This year, sweet baby Jesus, this year is one for the books. Two years of the pandemic with all the death, dying, illness, discord, fear, and fighting…
this year is requiring sacred closure with an urge I have never felt this strongly before. This year wants to be wrapped like a baby and put to bed with a lovingness that heals what it was. 2021 wants to be ritualized before we take the calendar off the wall.
Bad cops get away with murder in exactly the same way Kyle Rittenhouse did – and this is a very, very big deal.
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The court, led by a judge who was clearly sympathetic to Rittenhouse, handed the holy grail state of mind defense to white extremists whose sole purpose would be to impede free speech using deadly force.
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Toxic shame is bad, I agree, but shamelessness results in–45.
Reading Time: 4 minutes . I’ll say it again: we’re not all good, and we’re not all bad. No human, philosophy, group, country is all good. If I’m mostly good, should I try to be better? How does that happen if I make sure not to address what’s bad?
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CNN: Senate Judiciary Committee issues sweeping report detailing how Trump and a top DOJ lawyer attempted to overturn 2020 election
Reading Time: 5 minutes The series of interactions between the President and Rosen and Donoghue began in mid-December with an Oval Office meeting, included several phone calls and continued through January 3.
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I’m shouty about this because it’s not about saving fetuses, it’s about controlling women.
Reading Time: 3 minutes There should be no shame placed upon a woman who decides to have an abortion – regardless of her actions that led to being pregnant (sidestepping pregnancy resulting from rape/incest here as we don’t place as much blame or judgment on women in these instances, but yet there’s still some disgustingly enough).
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