#a part of me simply wants to fuck around and write free palestine all over it

[vinnymauro]

i have to remember to fill out my ballot for primaries bc well it’s next tuesday

[anunchainedwoman-blog]

Being A Better Person,

A guide.

It’s not that hard, just

Free Palestine

protect trans kids

don’t shoot people

don’t stab or swear or

make the choice not to be offended by

swear words can only affect you if you let them

if you fill them like beakers

with insult. Just knock them over

and laughter spills out.

Use swear words

Use trigger warnings

as if they were ramps

at a poetry evening

there to help those

who might need them.

Think of content warnings like those orange cords

you see in the corner of disabled bathrooms

there just in case someone, sometime

might need it to be okay.

Be okay

Be Ingrid Michaelson, or Bowie

or just be you.

Try hard not to step

on anyone’s toes

but also don’t be scared

to make your mark

and leave your footprint

in carbon-neutral marker

Be gender neutral, if you want

Be as good a person as you can be,

even if that means staying neutral

when you think you shouldn’t

or getting involved

when you think you can’t

Honi soit...

Be a man about it, or a woman

or a wokemyn or sometimes put women first

sometimes say “woman up” as naturally

as you might say to “man up”

sometimes say trans first, or BGL plus and minus

any gorgeous acronym that you feel comfortable with

Don’t let yourself get

too comfy. In your body, in your mind,

try not to get too set in front of the TV set

set in a routine

set down like tracks under a train

try not to get crushed under the wheels

try to be both the moth and the candle,

to be social butterfly and also anti-social

bug wrapped in your duvet all day.

Ask yourself regularly

Am I shouting too loudly? Or not loud enough?

Was it the wrong thing to whisper

in your ear?

Be a feminist or a

womanist or an equalist

Fuck it, be a men-inist

if it just means you’ll join me

at the barricades.

You have the power to fight

machine men with machine minds

and hearts made of steel

and driven ultimately by their desire

to come, deep inside you

then leave or better-

then sleep.

Be a good friend.

Share with them.

Offer your sweets around at break time,

don’t skip the queue at lunch time

mind your peas and queues and

stay in school but when you’re ready

try drugs, sensibly.

Don’t molehill girls

and shut down their issues by pretending to care

Don’t invalidate my complaint against micro-hate

by pointing me to world hunger

I don’t need reminding that the world is unjust

I’m just trying to fix this bit

and also this bit

but listen to me:

I am a wokemyn, I am capable

of trying to fix more than one thing at once.

Don’t tell me I can’t fight the tampon tax AND also

hope to end world hunger.

(May I remind you

if we diverted all the resources we spend

getting cows fat enough to feed fat American

families the quarter double half tonne pound dollar burger

if we took that food we give to cows

and gave it to American families

we could end world hunger

tomorrow. Just with grass.

May I remind you this is why grass

is illegal because

it makes you wake UP.)

Or... not

:D

Do what you want to do!

Don’t be prescriptive or too didactic

but also do as I say and listen only

and exactly to me. But don’t listen

to anyone you don’t agree with

Don’t give them a platform but don’t you dare

deny me my right to speak or my right to bare

my soul on the internet

late at night

Don’t listen to me,

Don’t listen to them

Don’t listen to him because what he teaches you is wrong

It is simply lies.

He is a Post-Truth President,

telling you you live on a Post-Truth Planet.

He is wrong.

Go find out what you feel

because in politics what you think is right

Donald does Disney politics

where you wish

and pin your hopes upon a minor daytime star

so weak I can’t even say he shines, only that his face

is shiny.

Believe him and suddenly

you have become post-truth too

Past the point of things like research

peer-reviews or the cold, hard immuteability

of facts and of death.

Past needing to post your OWN emails

your OWN tax returns

But not past the point where you don’t feel the need

to post bitchy comments on your twitter feed

embarassing yourself far more

than Meryl Streep

Now there’s a star I’d stick my faith too-

Mamma Mia for President!

Make America Gay again.

Don’t go out and vote

because the election is rigged

against you if you lose,

but if you win it’s absolutely fine right?

a fair fight, right?

you are part of the far right

and you are part of the problem.

I hope when you piss of Putin, finally

he will kill you with poison

with the chemical weapons

that you made legal in your countries

because don’t forget

you were just protecting your home

like the Palestinian children

you blew up from your bedroom,

and like the Jewish kids before them

your ancestors burned in showers.

You now have that power

to write the future.

Because you were born

by some miracle

in one of the ‘best��� countries

in this golden, great universe

Because you got to take a ride

on a golden ticket

to ride and hide behind the driving seat

of one of the most expensive, fuel guzzling

planet-killing, hot air-blowing

juggernauts

and you decided

you wanted to drive

this gorgeous machine that we

women have made, that

you men gave birth to

and you decide you want to drive us

like bigots, blindly barrelling

head first

into a wall.

Really, America?

Really?