Today I left my neighborhood for the first time since Friday, March 13, to join a few of my friends from the Remove Trump collective and We Will Not Be Silent in making a little statement. Just kidding about the “little” part! This banner is 20′ by 30′ — so it was easy to hold it…
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Throwback Thursday: Coachella and Gorsuch, 2017
Exactly three years ago, I was at Coachella, thinking about right-winger Neil Gorsuch‘s swearing-in to the Supreme Court a few days earlier. In the 1980s, Gorsuch was one year ahead of me at Columbia University. While I didn’t know him personally, I knew who he was, because — in addition to founding a conservative campus paper…
Meet the Real Andrew Cuomo
Nature abhors a vacuum. With a torrent of lies, rather than leadership, coming from the White House, people who are craving guidance during a crisis have gravitated toward New York’s tough-talking governor, Andrew Cuomo. Maybe they’re being tongue in cheek when they say, “Cuomo for President!” After all, I’ve jokingly suggested funny cats and social-media…
Remembering the “Social Distancing” of AIDS
While I would have liked to spread some … … tonight, I just can’t. I’m as angry as an Italian mayor who sees people jogging and throwing house parties instead of staying in quarantine to slow the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus. Italian mayor addresses his citizens about their irresponsible behavior (in a very…
Throwback Thursday: Arresting Bitch Face
After my February 5 arrest for civil disobedience in Washington, D.C., I teased photographer/activist George De Castro Day for not getting a photo of me actually being handcuffed in the Capitol rotunda. No one had gotten a photo of me being arrested a week earlier on the Capitol steps either, and I was like, “Dang,…
The #Rotunda10: Membership Has Its Prisoners!
Six weeks ago today — on Wednesday, February 5, in the hours before the GOP-led Senate acquitted the impeached president without holding a proper trial — I sat down on the floor of the Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C., with nine other women for a final act of protest ahead of the vote. Meet the…
Activism Inspiration: White Rose Leaflets of WWII
On this day in 1943, Nazis beheaded three young Germans — Christoph Probst and siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl — for their part in writing, printing, and distributing six leaflets urging nonviolent resistance to the fascist regime. Embed from Getty Images The leaflets were produced by the White Rose — the name chosen by a…
My Best Dressed at the 2020 Oscars Is …
I’ve fallen behind on blogging awards-season fashion because of … stuff. View this post on Instagram Shout-out to Tricia Cooke for finding the photo of my arrest as part of the #rotunda10 … my leather and denim jackets had so many pockets in them that everyone else was searched and in police vans by the…
Peep Me in the Swarm the Senate Video
NowThis Politics has a 40-minute video of last Wednesday’s #SwarmTheSenate civil-disobedience action in D.C., in which I participated. Look for me left of center (ha!) on the Capitol steps. Viewing this made me feel like the easy job was getting arrested! I’m stressed out by the cop who was constantly bellowing at the non-arrestee protestors…
You Don’t Have to Get Arrested. You Do Have to Act.
Yesterday, I went to Washington, D.C., with thousands of other activists to demand that the Senate hold a fair and lawful impeachment trial with witnesses and evidence. I was one of 40 people arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Before moving to the Capitol building, we’d held a silent, walking vigil in the…