On this Election Day, this quilt I made back in April 2011 came to mind.
Of course, I have not hidden my own leanings herein, but I think I care quite a bit more about our responsibilities as participants in a democracy. Go vote. Vote with your head and your heart. But mainly use your head.
Thanks.
Thank you for the beauty that you bring to the struggle. Your political quilts have inspired and comforted me.
I will!!!
I hope this evening won’t be a nail-biter.
Voted. Four more years please. Please,
I’m taking my son with me when I go to vote after work. I want him to start to learn about the importance of voting, and start to understand that he needs to think hard about his choices when he does. I’ve been explaining the many reasons behind my vote, but the war on women is a hard one to cover with a 6 year old. But I’ll try, because it’s important.
I am definitely voting to stop the war on women…and on gay people, and immigrants, and, and, and…This is a very important election!!!
Voted. With my head. I’m still baffled (and angered) why, in the year 2012, we still need to defend a woman’s basic rights.
yes, this has been a shocking year in that regard.
sad but true what Rachel commented..we voted same day our ballots arrived in mail, put them in our ballot box at our local library next morning..I can never understand other women turning against women rights…we should be in total control/charge of our bodies , all women, everywhere…all the time..no matter what.
Indeed. I’m sitting in my living room, nervously waiting for updates on the election results and marveling at the disconnect that occurs in the minds of people when weighing their political choices against their personal freedoms.
So pleased to turn on my computer here in the UK and read that as well as Obama’s win, those people whose comments were part of the war on women have been beaten.
Good news this morning.
good morning!!!!!
it is a VERY good morning, indeed!
lovely picture my friend!
Hallelujah w the outcome!!! Hard to believe we are actually fighting for our ‘selves’, again, just like all those decades ago! We’re supposed to be moving forward, not backwards. The fact there are female misogynists is still difficult to comprehend although I remember learning of their existence back in the 70s…and just sayin’ that a woman exercising the right to have choices about her own body does *not* make her ‘anti-life’ (what a concept)…it just makes her an opponent of those wanting to impose their beliefs on others.
I voted last week. It felt weird to vote early, but a vote is a vote! I’m relieved, and hopeful. xoxo. You are awesome.
I saw this post the morning of the election and had to pause for a moment. My roommates and I voted over lunch and then stayed up too late holding our breath.
I do not know if you saw this reaction: http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/11/obamas-america.html
I read it this morning and thought of your work.
I would have commented but saw you moderate them. So decided you wouldn’t include this woman’s comments.
I don’t understand your comment. Comments are moderated only to keep out spam and hate speech.