When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~ Barbara Bloom
Then Love is the gold which mends and holds us together.
And it’s when we’ve been broken and put back together by love that we truly become more beautiful.
I’m increasingly convinced that for a lot of self-proclaimed revolutionaries, total inaction isn’t an ideological failure mode – it’s the actual goal. Like, if you’re gonna construct an ethos whereby any political action short of immediate armed revolution is seen as a capitulation to the status quo, and must therefore be construed not merely as ineffectual but as actively immoral, knowing darn well that the Glorious Revolution isn’t gonna happen tomorrow (and next week’s not looking good, either!) – well, now you’ve built yourself a little house where you get to feel morally superior about doing absolutely nothing, and if we’re expected to believe that wasn’t the intended outcome all along, at least one of us is an idiot.
Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Honor those killed in anti-trans acts of violence; mourn the lights in our community that have gone out; say their names and tell their stories; and vow to fight for those still with us.
Democrat Stacey Abrams isn’t backing down from her fight against what she calls voter suppression tactics and election mismanagement after losing the Georgia governor’s race. In fact, Abrams said she’s experienced the problems in her state first hand — after being nearly denied a ballot herself during early voting.
In an interview with Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee said that when she went to vote last month, a poll worker initially told her she had requested an absentee ballot and couldn’t cast an in-person vote. Abrams replied that she’s never filed for an absentee ballot, and after a conversation with the site’s manager, the matter was quickly resolved.
“I did it quietly. I didn’t turn it into a major conversation because, for me, it was about getting through the process,” Abrams said. Followed by cameras to the polls, she said kept the snafu under wraps, because “I was not trying to embarrass anyone, but I did want it fixed.”
“But it was also emblematic to me of the privilege that I have,” Abrams, who holds a degree from Yale Law School, went on. “I know the law. There are thousands, millions in Georgia do not know what their rights are and therefore do not know that they shouldn’t have to wait in four-hour lines in the rain with their children. They shouldn’t have to worry about whether they will lose their jobs in order to exercise their democratic right to vote for their leaders.”
Sebastion Cooper 