I'm not renewing my LJ acct. I'll keep a free one, but I am going to find a new platform for journalling, to match the new chapter of my life. I'll let you know "where" it is, when I've found it.
thanks!
MgMt
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gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood AmendmentOkay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.
Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.
Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.
What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.
So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.
If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.
What to do?
- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.
- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.
- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.
- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.
Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.
Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.
Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.
What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.
The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.
So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.
If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.
What to do?
- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.
- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.
- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.
- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.
it is my 32nd year
and the cicadas sound the same.
Only now I know other things
besides the tapestry of wings
the web in the grass
Death is no longer a curiosity
Sex, too
Grief
Like the cicadas it will come back
and smell the same
and crunch under your feet the same
mountains of bird bones in a lime quarry
and someone out of sight
calling your name
I knew grief
I could hear it through the bathroom door
on the bad days
I could smell it on my mother's face
when she picked me up
they will never go away
even though we will
we will leave behind the cicadas
o Calin.
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coz i wanna know how emo i sound. and i want you to know, too. and if that embarrasses you, or you think "why can't you just be quieter?"
why do you have to laugh so loud?
why do you have to talk/think/write so much?
why do you have to be a fool?
if you think these things, i feel sorry for you. i have wasted too much of my life hating myself for what is in fact strength and resiliency. I'm done with that, now, and if you are busy hating yourself for what talents life's given you, come see me, man. seriously. i will make you gingerbread and we'll effing talk it out.
NO MORE! (after this I'm going to eat twizzlers and, like, watch...i don't know...what's something emo? what is EMO?)
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i think only seeker will actually appreciate this. but i need to remember how cringe-worthy I really am before I start whooping it up at the Smiling Skull's open stage again.
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