Comments | mizkit: Women’s March: Dublin

mizkit

Women’s March: Dublin

Jan 27, 2017 10:49

This will be a long picture-heavy post, so I’m going to open it with a fresh link to my IT’S A REBELLION: I REBEL t-shirt at Zazzle. I don’t actually know if they’ll let me keep it up and if they don’t I won’t put it up again, so get it now while the getting is good.

I went to the Dublin arm of the International Women’s March on Washington last ( Read more... )

it's a rebellion i rebel, human rights, many snowflakes make a story, politics

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deborahblakehps January 27 2017, 12:13:03 UTC

I marched on Saturday too. I live in a small town in upstate NY and they estimate we had 500 people. The closest medium-sized town, Binghamton, had 3,000. I only found out about the march an hour before it was happening, so I didn't have a sign, but I wore my "Nasty Woman" shirt. The energy was amazing, and as with you, lifted me up immensely.

Of course, the week since then has brought me down, and I'm trying hard to figure out how to balance being active and informed and vocal without being stressed/angry/depressed and also without inundating my followers on FB and Twitter with political stuff they may not agree with. Sigh.

Not to mention finding the ability to stay creative in the face of the end of the world as we know it...

But one way or the other, I rebel too.

mizkit January 27 2017, 12:25:27 UTC

Literally everybody I know is struggling with trying to find that balance. *Everybody*.

I do tend to feel that social media is a self-selecting audience, and if readers who come looking for me aren't already basically at least aware, if not in support, of my politics, and get upset at what I'm sharing on social media, then off is the general direction in which they may fuck. I don't even mean that in a nasty way, it's just that this is who I am and what I believe in and I'm not about to hide that under a blanket for someone else's comfort.

deborahblakehps January 27 2017, 12:34:49 UTC

Absolutely.

tersa January 27 2017, 15:48:28 UTC

I do tend to feel that social media is a self-selecting audience

I believe the same thing and had a similar conversation with someone this week about it. :)

suricattus January 27 2017, 20:03:42 UTC

I wore my "WaywardAF" t-shirt, and at the end of the march (I was in San Diego, since I'd planned to be down there for a signing anyway), I got glommed onto by several women wearing their AKF and SPN gear.

It was a good moment.

Marches are incredibly useful for reminding us that no, we're NOT alone, as we type into keyboards and pick up phones. The photos help us remember that. Keep looking at 'em. :-)

pers1stence January 28 2017, 04:07:29 UTC

I'd havered about going until literally the night before. I loathe crowds and am generally a little skeptical about the efficacy of marches (although they seem to have more power to get under That Man's skin) and felt like the "ask" was diffuse. Plus some of the organizing got off to a rocky start. Ended up deciding to go because P's nieces came down to march and both niblings wanted to march, so I came to balance the kid-adult ratio some and to use my local knowledge to help ensure safety/comfort for the kids. And it ended up being really wonderful. The kids gave great energy and the crowds were pleasant and helpful and, well, yeah, it was comforting to feel so much more in solidarity with my country... good stuff.