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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
gaudior and their activist toddler. We acquired skygiants and a not-on-Dreamwidth friend of mine at the rally and then ran into 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,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.
gaudior and their activist toddler. We acquired skygiants and a not-on-Dreamwidth friend of mine at the rally and then ran into 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,
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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(But thank you for going to both.)
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It would not have made me feel better not to.
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And thank goodness for small moments of joy amidst the bad news.
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I am having increasing difficulty imagining the other side of this. I want people to vote, and vote the right way, and for it to make a difference.
And thank goodness for small moments of joy amidst the bad news.
Yes.
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*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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Thank you for being where you are, for staying, mir zaynen do.
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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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Why do I feel both ashamed and hurt? :o(
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I want it not to be necessary.
*hugs*
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Thank you!
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I'm glad the Halloween party was fun.
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Thank you.
I'm glad the Halloween party was fun.
It was! Worth doing.
*hugs*
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Thank you.
*hugs*
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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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I like that. I'm glad you did.
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It made us happy.