The March in DC

April 28, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Last Sunday I participated in the March for Women’s Lives, originally names the March for Choice. The March was the largest women’s rights demonstration in our nation’s history with over 1 million people.

I know because I helped count those people. We asked everyone who came to sign in. They signed our forms with names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and we gave them green stickers that read “count me in” so they wouldn?t be double counted and overly harassed by the hundreds of volunteers just like me.

The sponsoring organizations were:
The Feminist Majority (aka Ms.)
NARAL (National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
National Organization for Women
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Black Women’s Health Imperative
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

The personal is political: I was menstruating during this event on reproductive health. How fitting! Read more

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update: Walking Papers for Shelia

April 14, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Shelia was terminated on Monday. I am partially responsible. It needed to be done, but I still feel bad.
(In case you don’t remember, Shelia was the one who said she didn’t associate with gay people. “I don’t invite them to my house for dinner. Understand?” I replied, “Yeah, I understand. I feel the same way about bigots.” )

I got a ton of flowers sent to my office today. They smell wonderful.

The LSAT prep is going well. Law school suits me so much better than an MBA program. I’m not in it to make money, I’m in it to make a difference.

Mary and I are definitely going to buy a house. We just really need to take care of each other right now and this is how. We know we can live together because we’ve done it plenty of times before. Neither of us could afford or qualify for a decent place alone but combined we’re fine. Apparently two wrongs do make a right.

I like living alone but I’m really looking forward to building some equity, having family closer, sharing utilities and such, and not being afraid to paint the walls or pull up the carpet.

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