Fuck trees, I climb buoys motherfucker!
This is not that post, sadly. I'm sure I will put it off long enough that I will just not do it.
So much has been going on in the past couple of weeks. So much work I've been doing with Jobs with Justice. Just last week National Organization for Women held our Take Back the Night event that we've been planning for since September or October. We started the night off with 20 mins or so of people browsing the tables of local organizations supporting women and providing services for domestic and sexual abuse. Then our march started and it was intense. When it started we had maybe 70ish people and our march route took us from Millican Hall, through the John Washington Breezeway, to the front of the Student Union, around to Classroom I, back to the Student Union and then back to Millican Hall. We had three stops at which we had people doing spoken word and reading poems to the group, it was very emotional. At the peak of our march we had random passersby just joining the march and I believe we broke 100 people on our route. My friend Kathryn (the radical feminist ;) ) took charge of the bullhorn and she was able to keep everyone riled up and chanting. Our voices echoed through the school, we took up the street at some points and it was just so amazing!
After our march we were at Millican Hall for the rest of the night to enjoy more poetry, spoken word, speakers, and music. It really was amazing. It also made me really happy that we had a good amount of men who seem to have come of their own accord. We didn't have any complaints the whole night and everyone seemed to love it. We even got an article in the campus newspaper! They forgot to mention it was NOWs event but whatever, it was still awesome.
I've also redone my idea for my next tattoo. I want to get a red star with black around it and underneath it would say "Venceremos" which in spanish means "We Shall Overcome." I wanted to get "Patria O Muerte" which means Homeland or Death, but I thought about it and that is a very nationalistic phrase used by nationalist revolutionary movements and I don't personally believe Latin America needs anymore nationalism. To me it's about common identity, common history, common oppression, and common goals so that's why I like "Venceremos" because to me it brings together the struggles of all the people in Latin America while not taking into account ridiculous notions of superiority between states or nationalism.
So much has been going on in the past couple of weeks. So much work I've been doing with Jobs with Justice. Just last week National Organization for Women held our Take Back the Night event that we've been planning for since September or October. We started the night off with 20 mins or so of people browsing the tables of local organizations supporting women and providing services for domestic and sexual abuse. Then our march started and it was intense. When it started we had maybe 70ish people and our march route took us from Millican Hall, through the John Washington Breezeway, to the front of the Student Union, around to Classroom I, back to the Student Union and then back to Millican Hall. We had three stops at which we had people doing spoken word and reading poems to the group, it was very emotional. At the peak of our march we had random passersby just joining the march and I believe we broke 100 people on our route. My friend Kathryn (the radical feminist ;) ) took charge of the bullhorn and she was able to keep everyone riled up and chanting. Our voices echoed through the school, we took up the street at some points and it was just so amazing!
After our march we were at Millican Hall for the rest of the night to enjoy more poetry, spoken word, speakers, and music. It really was amazing. It also made me really happy that we had a good amount of men who seem to have come of their own accord. We didn't have any complaints the whole night and everyone seemed to love it. We even got an article in the campus newspaper! They forgot to mention it was NOWs event but whatever, it was still awesome.
I've also redone my idea for my next tattoo. I want to get a red star with black around it and underneath it would say "Venceremos" which in spanish means "We Shall Overcome." I wanted to get "Patria O Muerte" which means Homeland or Death, but I thought about it and that is a very nationalistic phrase used by nationalist revolutionary movements and I don't personally believe Latin America needs anymore nationalism. To me it's about common identity, common history, common oppression, and common goals so that's why I like "Venceremos" because to me it brings together the struggles of all the people in Latin America while not taking into account ridiculous notions of superiority between states or nationalism.