2016 has been a tough year. Tough? Very tough! It was like going to what you thought was going to be a gentle Yoga class only it’s a full contact bloodsport and you first find out when you get smacked in the face!
One minute we were getting ready to welcome in the first woman president. Then bang, smack, like some horrible zombie out of a cheesy horror movie Trump became the President Elect.
While there are so many people upset over this shocking change in our political theme, women are especially upset to see decades of progress threatened to be reversed. Whether it is a judge letting a rapist off the hook because he’s really good at swimming, or yet another attack on Planned Parenthood, these injustices are coming thick and fast.
Yeah, it does feel like a roundhouse, an Ultimate Fighting Championship punch to the kisser! In the spirit of Rhonda Rousey and Olympic champ Nicola Adams women can take a hit and come right back! No orange faced, Cheeto monster-in-chief will stand in our way.
Trump’s transition team may be packing his cabinet with more nuts than a giant sack of trail mix and his party may squat in the House and Senate. But, these things can change. Protest, organization and winning elections are battles we can all win. Like what’s happened with Nevada’s Cortez Masto, the nation’s first Latina Senator. We at MM are proud to be part of that fight.
We’re going to be writing, singing, and putting people in contact with each other. We’ll be working with women, men, gays, straights, every gender and every person to keep our causes moving forward. A vast and beautiful quilt of resistance is being stitched even as you read this. Don’t tread on us and don’t you ever, EVER Trump on us!
We just took an unexpected smack to the chops. But, we’re ready to give our heads a shake and fight back. So, pick up a banner, a pen or a guitar and start expressing YOU. You’ll look back and tell your descendants 2016 MEH, but 2017 was YEAH!
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