move the world
zomg. it's here. election day. i can't stand it. of course, i'm worrying...did i do enough? (miz sy, activist in word and deed, did her part and phonebanked during all her spare moments up until yesterday).

focus is seeming impossible. it's a gorgeous crisp fall day and i'm vibrating with anxiety, hope, fear, and excitement. this election became a surprisingly personal one. surprising, because in some ways, i'm not accustomed to personal attacks within this liberal enclave that i call home (yes, thankful. no, never take it for granted). and also surprising, cuz marriage isn't the civil right that i'm most concerned about...there's people starving, winter coming with people on the streets, and in a very literal sense, people being thrown away.

and yet, people i considered part of my community are speaking out against my rights. not just voting, donating, waving signs, and telling me (in my own neighborhood!) that i'm inherently wrong, evil, lesser. dude. do they even know that sy and i aren't married? does that help? nope. in the end, it's an important object lesson--no matter how we might fit in their safe little boxes, other is other is us.

and, finally, surprising, because the level of discourse around race and gender is still so, well, backwards. never mind the fact that poc is still defined in very--literally--black and white terms. it's appalling that no matter all his qualifications, a black man is still looked upon with distrust for the color of his skin, while a white woman's lacking qualifications are overlooked...and then misappropriated as some kind of feminism.

but the other object lesson, the good one, the one i'm doing my best to feel deeply and to focus on--we are on the tipping point of change. and no matter what comes next, it will take us all (and all our momentum) to work (and work hard) to create the world we'd like to see.

so here's to change and hope and being so dang moved, i can't sit still!
Labels: change, obama, vote 2008

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