Eggs added; waiting for the bottom to cook a bit.
More cooking = more happy!
where girls expose their wits
If you are angry/terrified about the passage of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and looking for actions that you can take, I've compiled some suggestions.
Call your representatives and tell them that health care reform cannot exclude women's reproductive health:
The New York State Senators are:
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: (202) 224-4451
Senator Chuck Schumer: (202) 224-6542
Both of them are pro-choice, but we need them to take leadership positions against any erosion of women's reproductive rights.
The White House number is: (202) 456-1111
The Capital Switchboard number is: (202) 224-3121.
Find your representatives here: http://house.gov/
Find your senators here: http://senate.gov/
Get on the bus to DC:
http://www.ppaction.org/ppnyc/events/hcrlobbyday/details.tcl
Send a coat-hanger to the "pro-choice" congressmen who voted for the amendment:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/send_a_coathanger/?rc=chaser&r=5027&id=6701-1969789-Uy7jy2x
Sign a few petitions:
1. http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/hcr09foc_pporg?qp_source=hcr09foc%5fafc3
2. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1400/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1723
3. http://action.barbaraboxer.com/page/s/fightforhealth?source=ffwh_ccnational
4. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5095/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1294
Let your representatives know that women's bodies, health and rights are not a political bargaining chip.
Pro-Choice, Loud, and Proud!
Sometimes you just need to veg out. Housemade with 5N sauce, b&b
pickles, lettuce, tomato & a multi grain roll. Savor the flavor and do the planet a favor.
"This will make your girlfriend happy. Housemade with 5N sauce, b&b pickles, lettuce & tomato on a multi grain roll. Now if you'd just hand over that remote...."
seriously? only straight, partnered girls are vegetarians? and are we really going to play these same fucking gender themes? and what does this all have to do with selling me a veggie burger? fuck that. i wrote an email.
and...
within a few hours, i had an answer. they will be changing the copy and apologized for it. it may take a few days, but i will get an email when the change has been made. (and i will be checking). as soon as the copy is changed, i will be taking my gay, vegetarian self over to 5 Napkin Burger and enjoying the stuffing out of this veggie burger.
it's easy for me to stay quiet and stay angry. it's easy for me not to point out when people and companies fall short. it's easy for me not to give them the opportunity it to change.
but today reminds me that it is necessary for me to take the time and write the email. it is necessary for me to trust that my voice has value on whatever scale i choose to use it. it is necessary for me to support people and organizations that take their time to make change.
and all of those things, really, are fairly easy too.
so, dear readers/writers, what actions have you taken that led to positive results/changes? let's celebrate comment-style.
Dear Congresswoman Maloney:Contact her for yourself, for every woman you know, for every provider, for Dr. Tiller. Then contact your own legislators.
Thank you very much for being at the vigil for Dr. George Tiller. Thank you especially for committing to introducing legislation to protect providers and patients. I want to look at my government and feel respected, supported, and protected.
Please keep me up to date on any legislation you introduce and how I can help on the ground. I cannot think of a better way to use my time and passion than helping secure the safety of doctors, nurses and patients.
Again, thank you for your commitment to reproductive justice, and I look forward to being a loud voice in support of your bill.
office people
hey! you're a gay i know. did you hear about the assembly and the rally this sunday?
me to office people
why no! i'm not at all politically involved and never attend or plan rallies. thank you for casually giving a shit about my rights. you're a good friend.
Congrats to the NYS Assembly on passing marriage equality legislation (even though I'd rather see all civil marriage abolished and a new system put in place that accounts for the myriad ways people create families).
This sucks.
When are we going to make the saftey of all people a priority? When are we going to start working toward preventing violence? When are we going to, as a people, say to the transcommunity "you are worthwhile; you are worth protecting"?
I am a cisgender gay female. I hope I can be counted on as an ally to the transgender community, but I have a lot of learning to do.
I’ve been dissatisfied for several years at the language we use when discussing and writing laws about non-mainstream (read fully heterosexual) sexual identities. “Sexual preference” thankfully has seen a significant decline in use. “Sexual orientation” however remains. Both of these terms whisper and hint at choice. I do not believe that attraction is a choice, although I also believe that there may be people in the world that do choose their “orientation”. The majority of people find their sexual choices driven by something innate. I have been looking for a new term and complaining all along the journey to find one. My eureka moment, I think, has come.
While listening to a podcast on Charles Darwin, I was thinking about how absurd it is that discrimination and hate can be based upon variations in sex characteristics, and how we very well could have evolved large women and small men (like the Black Widow). Okay, so I dorked out hard core. The point is I landed on a term that seems to work for me. “Sexual Variation”. With sexual variation, we get a few things that we don’t get with the other two:
General Benefits
Personal Benefits (that I hope are general)
So. What’s your variation?
Gillian Hurst lives in New York City working as an actor and writer. She is a twenty something with lots of day jobs (including research assistant analyst, scrapbooker, babysitter, secret shopper and background artist). Gillian hails from Lenox, MA and still misses the coffee shop on Main St. Gillian has many interests including Education, Travel, Cooking, Theater, Book Clubs, Green Markets, Composting and watching Martha Stewart.....Gillian is also the writer of the blog "The Life and Times of Priscilla Rosenblaum". For more www.GillianHurst.Com or http://landtofpr.blogspot.com
I was raised to be very independent. I am very independent. I am very independent in my first serious relationship. Marriage is in our future. Children are in our future. My boyfriend has a full time job. He makes money. I'm an actor. I work part-time and make no money. Since I've moved in with him.... I've profited from paying a smaller rent than I would pay on my own. We split it. But the freedom of a few hundred dollars has allowed me to act more. Though my checking and savings account are hurting. After I pay my rent this month and get a metro card- I will have ten dollars to my name til my next paycheck.
Like any rational person- I freaked out about this and got all anxious. I was looking up ways to save due to the economy and telling my boyfriend about it. He didn't seem to get why I was freaking out. I told him about my checking account and he asked me if I needed money. This was really sweet of him. I said no. Being the independent person I am- I've never been able to just accept money from someone, even my parents. And I already owe boyfriend money for our trip to Florida in April for MY Grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary.
My mother says I can't let him give me money until we are married. We've only been together a year. I've always planned on getting married someday if things worked out. But part of me wants to stop working(the tired, burned out part). Then I can focus on acting AND keep house. I think that would make me happy. But I don't know if not having my own income would make me happy.................
Neither would being a homemaker. I'm totally capable of working and contributing equally to our home. I don't want to live off another person. Thus, I like the word mom to be involved. Because taking care of kids is a big job. Wouldn't it be good to practise being a stay at home mom before the kids come??? This way I will be all prepared as to where to get the best organic veggies to make my own baby food.
At the lowest cost.... cause I'm a miser. But my hypothetical baby deserves the best!