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These are the show notes from No Dragons Press: Episode 29: “Addie Is Wrong…Again.”

I also discuss going to the Women’s March on Washington: MN at the Saint Paul capitol.

I attended the Women’s March on Washington: MN

Hello everyone! I know I kind of missed a week and played with some dates there, but here’s the thing: I went to the Women’s March on Washington in MN.

The Women’s March Showed an Isolated America Another Perspective

You know, everyone’s got that friend or coworker told them your side lost get over it, and I really hope these marches showed everyone on the outside just how widespread the dissent is how many different reasons.

The Women’s March Highlighted Struggles of All Women, Not Just White Ones

I think it was a great learning opportunity for the people marching. Even big cities with a lot of diversity really face difficult challenges in connecting one community to another in all the important ways when the struggles of one community might not necessarily make it on the radar of the community just next door.

I think everyone who attended the women’s march came away with a deeper idea of how nuanced these ideas of feminism and equality are and how any real solution to gender inequality includes recognizing and addressing racial inequality and ableism and all of these other very real social issues we can’t silence, and how we all bring our own experiences to the table and every one of those experiences is a valid part of what America is.

As a few awesome signs note, the revolution will be intersectional.

I think women who hadn’t necessarily thought about any of these things before walked away with a much deeper understanding of their own privilege and a very real commitment to standing up for the people being belittled or overlooked, especially when they don’t have a way to stand up for themselves, even if we aren’t directly or immediately affected ourselves, and understanding that acknowledging the deep struggles of others does not diminish our own, it just makes us collectively stronger.

The Women’s March Showed Us We Are Not Alone

You know, for everyone who’s felt scared or anxious or hopeless since the election, whether that’s about women’s issues or anything else—I can’t speak for everyone, but in a time where I often feel like I’m literally speaking another language than some of my family, it felt really fucking good to stand with thousands and thousands of people who didn’t all necessarily feel exactly the same way about everything but found enough common ground over their frustrations to come together in a truly historic way.
I just hope we stay fired up and engaged, because it was individual disgust with the general state of things that made so many people stay home on Election Day, and hopefully displaying our collective disgust gives us all the motivation to make sure that doesn’t happen again.

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I hope you enjoy chapter 29: Addie Is Wrong…Again.

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