Tidbits from a Time of Survival

All the political parties should agree to only run women candidates for president next time around.


I feel like I’m trapped in the climactic scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark but also surrounded by Weeping Angels. Close your eyes. Don’t blink.


My nine-year-old is playing Christmas songs on the piano. It’s lovely.


Just explained to my nine-year-old how to support people who are being bullied by talking to them and ignoring the bully.


My three-year-old saw a man with a leaf blower and is convinced he’s a Ghostbuster wearing a proton pack.


I nearly died when my daughter was born and spent a full year recovering, in daily pain. Choosing to have a second child — to risk going through childbirth again — was a complicated and terrifying decision.

The idea of ever being pregnant and being forced to continue the pregnancy against my will is one of my deepest fears. You know the people in Aliens, stuck to the walls and begging to die, about to have aliens burst from their chests? That’s forced pregnancy.

We must protect Roe v. Wade. Threats against it are threats against every woman’s physical safety.


If you didn’t actively vote against Trump/Pence, then it’s hard for me to see you as anything other than deeply sexist and actively hostile to my physical safety as a woman.

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