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Just another manic Monday.
The first day back from a long weekend is always so terribly long. But I’ve had worse Mondays, it’s true. Mexican food, karaoke, and some time with my mother and Jason. It could have been worse.
Hello, world!
Welcome to the brand-spanking new home of Lauren Wheeler’s Fighting Words. It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally migrated the old site over to WordPress. I’ll be making some changes over the coming months to get the site up and … Continue reading
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We rats will pull a lever, too, if you give us a good enough reason.
I am hereby declaring war on insomnia. Pharmaceuticals, take me away. But, first…. — I’ve been thinking a lot about electoral politics for obvious reasons. It’s not just the presidential campaign that captured most of us all year, or the … Continue reading
Bail out my ass.
Monday, I used my new-to-me car Sputnik to drive to East Oakland and pick up a woman named Joyce from her housing project. We then went to the Oakland Housing Authority’s headquarters downtown for a press conference before the meeting … Continue reading
Sundowning.
She says she’s tired. That’s the first thing she says when we arrive and she’s lying in a hospital bed hooked up to the dialysis machine. Her hands, gnarled from years of cleaning and cooking, hands that held me when … Continue reading
Even closer to home.
From an article in Time Magazine on Trinity United Church of Christ: The bulk of Trinity-goers are among the thousands living on Chicago’s South Side, a sprawl of cracked sidewalks and boarded buildings that inspires fear among the city’s middle … Continue reading
Close to home.
Last June, after leaving my last job in the video game industry, I decided to spend the summer doing volunteer work. One organization with which I became involved is Just Cause Oakland, a community-based organization dedicated to protecting affordable housing … Continue reading
“Bow to the woman,” or Revisiting the racism of white feminism.
I’ve been told that my post yesterday quoting from writings and speeches by Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton was “a cheap shot” and “ineffectual.” Apparently there are no connections to be made between the political stances of the leaders … Continue reading
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Those who forget history will be doomed to repeat it.
All quotes below pulled from Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis…. Frederick Douglass, in an article titled “The Rights of Women” published in his abolitionist newspaper North Star, July 1848: In respect to political rights, we hold woman … Continue reading
Ain’t I a woman?
There’s a lot I have to say about what came up in yesterday’s post. Those who asked for a longer essay might get it, when I have more time, which may be when I’m dead. But I think I should … Continue reading
