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It’s Election Day, Betches!

November 3, 2020 by WendyB

It’s Election Day, Betches!

Finally! It’s Election Day, betches! This is your last chance to vote! Do you need help finding your poll site and its hours, or need a peek at your ballot before you head out? Here’s your source for everything! VOTE411.ORG It bears repeating that if you are in line at the poll site by the…

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Filed Under: activism, Eminem, In the News, politics Tagged With: biden harris 2020, defeat fascism, election day, election day 2020, get out the vote, triple the vote, vote blue

Tomorrow Is Election Day

November 2, 2020 by WendyB

Tomorrow — Tuesday, November 3 — is your last day to vote if you haven’t already voted early, or by mail-in or absentee ballot. If you’ve already voted, make sure you speak to/call/email/text three other people to make sure they have voted too. If you haven’t voted yet, make sure you know where to go…

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Filed Under: activism, In the News, news, politics Tagged With: election day, election day 2020, joe biden, kamala harris, vote blue

RIP, Chiara D’Agostino

October 25, 2020 by WendyB

RIP, Chiara D’Agostino

A year ago today, I brought a cake to the hospital so my friend Chiara D’Agostino could celebrate her 48th birthday during her chemo appointment. Chiara died this August 4 of a complication of stage 4 triple negative metastatic breast cancer — leptomeningeal disease, in which the cancer invades the fluid around the brain and…

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Filed Under: earrings, health, Jewelry, models, obits, pictures of me, single earrings Tagged With: breast cancer, chiara d'agostino, triple negative metastatic breast cancer

What Wendy Wore: Art by These Pink Lips, Part 2

October 22, 2020 by WendyB

What Wendy Wore: Art by These Pink Lips, Part 2

In September, which was either last month or a thousand years ago, I introduced you to Iris Barbee Bonner, who creates wearable art — the best kind of art! — under the name These Pink Lips. You’ve seen Iris’s custom work on Cardi B … and me. View this post on Instagram Here’s a solo…

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Filed Under: 80s style, About Wendy, activism, art, Arts & Entertainment, clothes, clothing, Fashion, homegrown vintage, jackets, outfit post, pictures of me, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: iris barbee bonner, lady pink, slow fashion, slow fashion movement, these pink lips

Throwback Thursday: Designer Patrick Kelly

September 24, 2020 by WendyB

Every time I think I’m settling back in to a daily blogging schedule, the urgent fight against white supremacists and dictatorship calls me away.  Sometimes breaking news even cancels planned protest actions, like last weekend, when the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg caused my team to postpone our #TrumpRat art project in…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, Throwback Thursday Tagged With: arrest trump, black lives matter, black women's march, fuck trump, impeach trump, trump rat, trumprat

What Wendy Wore: Art by These Pink Lips, Part 1

September 16, 2020 by WendyB

What Wendy Wore: Art by These Pink Lips, Part 1

Last year, I asked artist Andrew Lyko to paint my old motorcycle jacket so that it would be appropriate for cold-weather protesting. I requested a tribute to Never Again Action, a grass-roots collaboration between Jewish and immigrant-rights activists that started protesting U.S. concentration camps last summer. I wear the jacket to other protests too, so…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, Fashion, pictures of me Tagged With: #closethecamps, abolish ice, black artists, black women artists, cosecha, customized clothes, defund the police, iris barbee bonner, movimiento cosecha, never again action, never again para nadie, painted clothes, these pink lips

Like Audre Lorde Said, Find Your Work and Do It

September 14, 2020 by WendyB

Like Audre Lorde Said, Find Your Work and Do It

Nearly every day, someone asks me if I have hope, and shares that they feel hopeless. I wish I could pour people a serving of hope the way I might supply an imaginary neighbor with a cup of sugar. (Do people still do that somewhere? “Borrow” sugar?) To be honest, I feel low on hope…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism Tagged With: audre lorde, bravinlee programs, john post lee, trump rat, trumprat

19 Years Later: Hypocrisy and Community

September 11, 2020 by WendyB

19 Years Later: Hypocrisy and Community

Nineteen years ago today, I was working at a building complex across the street from the World Trade Center. I was supposed to go to a meeting at my company’s WTC offices, but I decided I’d participate by phone instead. That was a stroke of luck, because that morning, 19 men — 15 of them…

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Filed Under: 9/11, In the News Tagged With: 9/11, arrest trump, coronavirus, COVID-19, osama bin laden, pandemic, taliban

Guess Who’s Back … With a Trump-Rat GoFundMe!

September 10, 2020 by WendyB

Guess Who’s Back … With a Trump-Rat GoFundMe!

Hello? via GIPHY Is anyone out there? It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the blog, though I thought about it guiltily every day since my 13th-blogversary post in July. (By the way, unproductive, self-inflicted guilt: zero out of 4 stars, do not recommend.) If you follow my personal Instagram, you know that…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, pictures of me Tagged With: bravinlee programs, inflatable rat, trump rat, trumprat

Meet the Rightful Queen on My 13th Blogversary

July 23, 2020 by WendyB

Meet the Rightful Queen on My 13th Blogversary

In honor of my 13th blogversary today, I’ve overcome some long-running technical problems and broken into my own blog in order to say hello. My dire need for a new website/blog developer (comment with your resume!) reminds me of the good old days of my blog’s random removal from listings by the now-defunct search-engine Technorati…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, anniversaries, Arts & Entertainment, authors, blogversary, book club, books, Special Occasions Tagged With: isabelle steiger, Paths of Lantistyne, the empire's ghost, the rightful queen

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