I’m searching the campaign coverage, but I can’t find, um — help me out: did the Supreme Court get re-elected?? Oh wait. Right, they weren’t on the ballot. Life tenure, all that. That helps explain this nightmare I had: We were getting ready to march again, from Selma to Montgomery, to get voting rights and … Continue reading Jessica Valenti With an Important Reminder
Aftermath — Part 2 Amelia Boynton was my landlady in Selma, Alabama. She was also a prominent local civil fights activist, one of the handful of Black Selmians who had managed to badger her way onto the voting rolls despite segregation. When she was knocked out cold on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge during the “Bloody … Continue reading Aftermath — Part 2: A Constant Struggle
A long time ago, before we crossed paths, the Fair Wendy rode a motorcycle from Ohio to Pittsburgh and back, then later to Chicago. She loved the independence, the adventure, and the wind. She still has the motorcycle, under a tarp behind the house. Fortunately (from my perspective) it’s too rusted to be cranked up.
A Compelling Read . . . The Guardian Chelsea Manning: ‘I struggle with the so-called free world compared with life in prison’ Nihilist, anarchist, idealist, troubled young transperson crying out for help: when a 22-year-old US military analyst leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents, everyone thought they knew why. They were wrong, she says. … Continue reading Chelsea Manning: A Searching, Thought-Provoking Profile
The gap between the freedoms and opportunities enjoyed by the system’s affiliated elite and those of ordinary Iranians has never been so wide — and never have so many people expressed so much anger about it. This fundamental repudiation of the system is what makes these protests so different from other restive moments in Iran’s … Continue reading Quote of the Weekend: Iran Women’s Resistance