Banning abortions does not stop the need for them, it just bans their safety.
I remember far too many women who unnecessarily died from illegal abortions. Without safe access, women risk their lives.
Tomorrow, there will be marches, rallies, and speak-outs all over the nation. Remember, a movement is only people moving. #BansOffOurBodies
Thank you to my dear friend, Phyllis Rosser, who took this photo and to the @archivalagents for keeping it intact.
I know personally how important it is for women to have full control over their bodies. If we deny women that, we deny women the right to be themselves.
For all those women in Texas, I will say to you what I said when asked what I would say to Melania Trump: “I have a guest room in New York.”
As I often say, I just had to wait for some of my friends to be born – and that is so very true of @amandascgorman. Like most of us, I felt her words deeply when she appeared at the inauguration. I can’t wait to see what she does. I promise to live to at least 100 so I can see all that you will create, Amanda. Glad that 21 for ’21 and @themeteor gave us a chance to connect.
Since I’m a hope-a-holic, I know there will be happier days ahead of us! Just like this recent one, when I got to sit with my good friend @kathynajimy on the bench in Central Park that she made possible. It honors Sojourner Truth and commemorated my 80th birthday, gifted to me by friends.
Thanks to my friends at Apple, it is now easily locatable with @applebooks and where they have conveniently mapped out my 10 favorite places in New York. Hope you can enjoy them as much as I do.
Photograph thanks to @katielymanphotography
#applemaps
Since I’m a hope-a-holic, I know there will be happier days ahead of us! Just like this recent one, when I got to sit with my good friend @kathynajimy on the bench in Central Park that she made possible. It honors Sojourner Truth and commemorated my 80th birthday, gifted to me by friends.
Thanks to my friends at Apple, it is now easily locatable with @applebooks and where they have conveniently mapped out my 10 favorite places in New York. Hope you can enjoy them as much as I do.
Photograph thanks to @katielymanphotography
#applemaps
I still don’t know how I got to be this old! Today I turn 88 and about this time 50 years ago @ms_magazine was born. When I was 38 years old, I was sitting in a makeshift office with friends and co-conspirators, working to create a magazine, and loving every minute of it. Yet had we all known how hard it was to start a magazine, I’m not sure we would have. I was just beginning what would become a life-long journey in activism, but I had been making a go of a career as a political journalist for over a decade.
In honor of my 88th birthday and in celebration of 50 years of Ms. magazine, my team has made an exhibit with @googleartsandculture chronicling my writing journey. And since my favorite part of the magazine was always hearing from the readers, if you have a story about how Ms. magazine inspired or impacted you, you can share it with me through a form at the end of the exhibit.
Find, “A Movement Lived and Written” at the link in my bio.
My apartment has never been in more capable hands than with these tradeswomen and tradeswomen to-be @tools_n_tiaras
I have long believed that the simplest cure for everything, from conflict to the need for community, is the Talking Circle. Last night reaffirmed this. It was a true honor to open up my living room to new friends (and old) to celebrate Women’s History Month with @warbyparker. My heart and head are feeling very nurtured. — thank you also to @camillebecerra @doan_ly @nyembroiderystudio
The world is very heavy right now, we have to remember to laugh a little, after all laughter is the best resistance. Remember: Laughter is the one emotion that cannot be compelled.
Thank you @ourkindra for bringing humor to me!
I’ve spent most of my life living in an “on the road state of mind” and with that have developed my own packing habits: a uniform of black pants and top and a change of belt to mix things up. As a frequent traveler, I have noted that baggage is biography; we are what we carry. I wrote an essay on this topic, but never found a home for it. That is until @louisvuitton asked me to celebrate their 200th year of business. Thankful that their design team could bring my words the life. #louis200 #louisvuitton
I’ve spent most of my life living in an “on the road state of mind” and with that have developed my own packing habits: a uniform of black pants and top and a change of belt to mix things up. As a frequent traveler, I have noted that baggage is biography; we are what we carry. I wrote an essay on this topic, but never found a home for it. That is until @louisvuitton asked me to celebrate their 200th year of business. Thankful that their design team could bring my words the life. #louis200 #louisvuitton
I’ve spent most of my life living in an “on the road state of mind” and with that have developed my own packing habits: a uniform of black pants and top and a change of belt to mix things up. As a frequent traveler, I have noted that baggage is biography; we are what we carry. I wrote an essay on this topic, but never found a home for it. That is until @louisvuitton asked me to celebrate their 200th year of business. Thankful that their design team could bring my words the life. #louis200 #louisvuitton
How lucky for me that in this moment that we need to organize like never before, I had already planned a long overdue Talking Circle with @chasinggarza who has been organizing since she was a teen getting her middle school health center to carry contraception long before she recognized that as a political act. Her leadership has given us #BlackLivesMatter and the @blklivesmatter Global Network, @Supermajority, @blackfutureslab and many other movement builders that expand our notions of what organizing might look like.
Take her advice. “See the forest through the trees.”
As I have said and continue to say, “F*CK them.” We are going to do what we have to do, as we always do.
If you want to know how we have been through this before and survived, the link in bio. Thank you to @masterclass for making this a free resource.
I didn’t skate The Skate Church but so happy for the technology that makes it look like I did. And always thankful to experience a church being reclaimed from monotheism into something useful. Photo done by the wonderful @webbersloan.
I wouldn’t have anticipated when I wrote this in 1999 after the mass shooting at Columbine that it would have been the first of so so so many heartbreaking examples…
As I wrote, “The reason why this country has such a high rate of violence include the plentiful guns that make killing seem as unreal as a video game; male violence in the media that desensitizes viewers in much the same way that combat killers are desensitized in training; affluence that allows maximum access to violence-as-enteratinment; a national history of genocide and slavery; the romanticizing of frontier violence and organized crime; not to mention the extremes of wealth and poverty and the illusion that both are deserved.”
Whatever the reasons, they are buried deep in the culture, so invisible that only by reversing our assumptions can we reveal them.
I wouldn’t have anticipated when I wrote this in 1999 after the mass shooting at Columbine that it would have been the first of so so so many heartbreaking examples…
As I wrote, “The reason why this country has such a high rate of violence include the plentiful guns that make killing seem as unreal as a video game; male violence in the media that desensitizes viewers in much the same way that combat killers are desensitized in training; affluence that allows maximum access to violence-as-enteratinment; a national history of genocide and slavery; the romanticizing of frontier violence and organized crime; not to mention the extremes of wealth and poverty and the illusion that both are deserved.”
Whatever the reasons, they are buried deep in the culture, so invisible that only by reversing our assumptions can we reveal them.
So thrilled to have my dear friend Wilma Mankiller on a quarter due out June 6th, along with the other women that have defined our century. I still believe that if Wilma were still with us she would be, could be, should be our President.
Thank you to Representative Lee, Rosie Rios and all others who are making this possible.
pc: Jenny Warburg
Honored and awed by this week in Spain. From the “Feminist House” to the meetings with local students who created their own magazines, it has been overwhelming and a pleasure. And a big-time first for receiving an official honor on the behalf of the female half of the world.
Congratulations to:
Marina Abramoivć
Amartya Sen
Teresa Perales
Emmanuel Carrère
Camfed
Katalin Karikó
Drew Weissman
Philip Felgner
Uǧur Şahin
Özlem Türeci
Derrick Rossi
Sarah Gilbert
José Andrés and the NGO World Central Kitchen
Honored and awed by this week in Spain. From the “Feminist House” to the meetings with local students who created their own magazines, it has been overwhelming and a pleasure. And a big-time first for receiving an official honor on the behalf of the female half of the world.
Congratulations to:
Marina Abramoivć
Amartya Sen
Teresa Perales
Emmanuel Carrère
Camfed
Katalin Karikó
Drew Weissman
Philip Felgner
Uǧur Şahin
Özlem Türeci
Derrick Rossi
Sarah Gilbert
José Andrés and the NGO World Central Kitchen
I have long believed that empathy is the most radical of human emotions. Thanks to MasterClass for pushing that thinking and creating community around it. This isn’t a paid promotion, just a deep belief that when good people come together good things can come from that – plus it gave me an excuse to connect with old friends and meet new ones to discuss feminism’s long road. @adriennemareebrown @amandangocnguyen @tinatchen
Campaigning has been a part of my life since I was a teenager. I loved knowing you could just walk in and immediately have a job to do. I once again witnessed the magic of a campaign today at @mayawiley4nyc’s Brooklyn rally. I’m ranking Maya first in tomorrow’s primary and encourage my fellow New Yorkers to do the same.
In 1969, I went to cover an abortion speak out in a church basement in lower Manhattan. This was the first time I heard women telling the truth about their lives. I wrote about this event in my column at New York Magazine as it became a turning point in my consciousness.
As I said then, “If the ‘consciousness-raising’ programs of the Women’s Liberation Movement work, they’ll see them as rallying points for women qua women. And that might forge the final revolutionary link.”
Then, like now, we need to form small groups, speak our truth and the revolution will follow.
In 1969, I went to cover an abortion speak out in a church basement in lower Manhattan. This was the first time I heard women telling the truth about their lives. I wrote about this event in my column at New York Magazine as it became a turning point in my consciousness.
As I said then, “If the ‘consciousness-raising’ programs of the Women’s Liberation Movement work, they’ll see them as rallying points for women qua women. And that might forge the final revolutionary link.”
Then, like now, we need to form small groups, speak our truth and the revolution will follow.
In 1969, I went to cover an abortion speak out in a church basement in lower Manhattan. This was the first time I heard women telling the truth about their lives. I wrote about this event in my column at New York Magazine as it became a turning point in my consciousness.
As I said then, “If the ‘consciousness-raising’ programs of the Women’s Liberation Movement work, they’ll see them as rallying points for women qua women. And that might forge the final revolutionary link.”
Then, like now, we need to form small groups, speak our truth and the revolution will follow.
