suffragette city

hey folks -- friday is the 85th anniversary of the voting act for women!

this is a message to all the women & grrls & womyn, and the men & bois, and the pre-op, post-op & non-op trannies, and the anti-label gender-queers, and the men & bois, and progressive white heterosexual men, and anyone else who feels that their personal identity is not already listed -- no matter whether you think voting is great or you feel that voting is pointless, please take a moment to reflect upon the fact that the ability to vote (for the non-white non-property-owning non-males non-WASP among us) is a very recent thing in our nation's laws.

personally, I'm an anarchist, which means -- probably contrary what you've heard from the long-running smear campaign against us -- that I believe personal responsibility is both a responsibility and personal. I don't believe that I should vote and consider the job done. no no no! voting is the absolute LEAST that each of us can do. we should all be out there, walking more & driving less, looking strangers in the eye & smiling, playing on the swingset in the park, laughing, toiling, getting our hands dirty and feeding our souls.

friday is the 85th anniversary of women clawing their way into voting priviledge. thank you, elizabeth cady stanton, lucretia mott, julia ward howe, susan b. anthony, william lloyd garrison, and every woman who was born before 1920 and had no say in how she was "governed".

friday is the 85th anniversary of the suffragette victory. I'll be having dinner with some of my wonderful, thoughtful, beautiful, loving grrl friends and celebrating my responsibility to vote.

peace