I spit and chew and bite

[sovay]

This cat picture is not mine; it comes courtesy of of teenybuffalo, who found it on Tumblr:



I was prepared to love this image despite its likely origin as an outsider's sendup of the suffrage movement, but then it turned out to have been an actual suffragette Christmas card, which is even better. derspatchel says he can see "Hestia marching, festooned with violets, hoisting a banner aloft with her tail, ready to pounce on any police resistance." Mice and roses, they sing. Mice and roses.

(The actual song "Bread and Roses" causes me to tear up for reasons I do not entirely understand, because I cannot remember ever singing it as a child or communally, but it turned up as a spontaneous and formal expression of workers' solidarity in a scene in Pride (2014) and I disintegrated.)

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[robynbender]

"Bread and Roses" ran straight up my spine the first time I heard it (done by Judy Collins - recommended!). Still does it to me when I watch that scene in Pride, these 40 years later.

Thanks for the book link. I sometimes stare at a piece of suffrage ephemera, trying to decide if it came from the Pro's or the Anti's. Hard to be a tourist in Time - there are just subtleties about the landscape that you don't have access to.

[sovay]

"Bread and Roses" ran straight up my spine the first time I heard it (done by Judy Collins - recommended!).

I will listen to it. Somehow I missed her version as a child, despite not being able to remember a time when I didn't know "Anathea."

Thanks for the book link.

You're welcome. There are eras I am better at reading than others, but sometimes recent history is just close enough to be a false cognate.

I do not know if it was intended to, but your icon has gotten the Orgy song firmly stuck in my head.