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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2018-10-28 11:44 pm

Before my transition, it would have led to mixed dancing

I am not sorry that I attended either the rally for trans rights this afternoon at City Hall Plaza or the vigil for the eleven dead of Tree of Life at the Boston Public Garden immediately afterward, but I am exhausted. I went with [personal profile] gaudior and their activist toddler. We acquired [personal profile] skygiants and a not-on-Dreamwidth friend of mine at the rally and then ran into [personal profile] awhyzip at the vigil. I missed another friend-not-on-DW in the vigil crowd. I didn't realize it was a thousand people. I was in the middle of the crowd and could not see its edges; I estimated about five hundred. I have never before said Kaddish in a crowd of a thousand. I don't know how to talk about that. I should not need to spend so much of my weekend asserting the right to life of the various communities to which I and so many of the people I love belong. We are not going anywhere, but must we have occasion to say it so often? Couldn't one of these years we just take it as read?

P.S. Last night's Halloween party went very well, was full of small children and pizza and pumpkins and hot cider, I have a hunter-green silk shirt with ridiculous sleeves, [personal profile] spatch wore a superb bad tie. My mother was pleased with her fiftieth anniversary pumpkin-carving. I just want to spend tomorrow asleep and maybe the world could put going to hell on hold for twenty-four hours.
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[personal profile] julian 2018-10-29 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
No, you really should not.

(But thank you for going to both.)
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2018-10-29 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Some things we need to witness. Some things we should not need to witness for, but increasingly do.

And thank goodness for small moments of joy amidst the bad news.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-10-29 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Some. People. We. Just. Eat.

*roars*

Our new, blue lobby friend says there is "no credible threat here." Thanks, then why are you sitting in my fucking lobby?

Thank you for going to the rally, to the vigil, for doing, for carrying me where my legs no longer can.
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[personal profile] selkie 2018-10-29 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to stay where I'm needed and useful. אַ פֿאָלק צווישן פֿאַלנדיקע ווענט or something.

Boss calls us the canaries in the mine (and I don't have the heart to tell him I texted you that months ago) but I like breathing oxygen; I'm not going to go down dumbly as if I wandered into that creepy plutonion in Turkey. Don't worry.

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[personal profile] cmcmck 2018-10-29 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds to me like two very good things to attend and thank you for attending them.

Why do I feel both ashamed and hurt? :o(
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[personal profile] hamletta 2018-10-29 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Sending support and best wishes!
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2018-10-29 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you went to the rally and the vigil; I'm sorry they're necessary.

I'm glad the Halloween party was fun.
dhampyresa: Sun from Sense8 (hugs)

[personal profile] dhampyresa 2018-10-29 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for going and hugs if you want them.
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2018-10-30 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
Man, I completely shanked on the vigil. oops.
On the other hand, I did at least help set up for this, and they ended up dedicating it in memory of the victims at Tree Of Life.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2018-10-30 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Last night's Halloween party went very well, was full of small children and pizza and pumpkins and hot cider --In a dark time, that makes me very happy.