The womans voice.

i am feeling very good about the womans voice. as a whole. united. even in groups divided, still... as a whole, as a wave across the nation and the world, i am loudly hearing the womans voice, strong, balanced, grounded, healthy.





i hadnt heard it a year ago,. not in our youth, not from most everyone else. but, along the way in the last year, i am hearing it clearly from our young women. from all women. it is very heartening.

i never thought much about it until my time on du. over the last couple years my voice inside has pushed me to speak out. always speak out. never stop, speaking out. consistently, constantly, even though it is not comfortable. even though i will be labeled, disliked, it is important to always speak out. because, though there may be the handful that continually tell me to shut up, there is going to be the one that hears me speak out, the one that needs to hear a woman speak out and gain the courage or insight to their own voice, to speak out.






the ripple that turns in to a wave.






i had never considered myself a feminist. du gave me that name. at first it was, no, no, i am not. and it was not because i disrespected the title of feminist. like limbaugh and mra create the negativity of feminism. you know, prude, anti sex, frigid and so many more. i got over that in my 20's. the reason i did not call myself, or own feminism is because i did not feel i earned it. i respected the feminist. i respected the time, and work, and education they had. i never felt, and do not today feel, that i have earned the role.

but, i accept and adopted the description of feminist. as i have with liberal. to own. (right, words do not matter, and how we define ourselves with labels have no consequence). even though in both, i do not feel entitled for different reasons. democrat, sure. i have voted democratic for decades.

but, something happened along the way a handful of months ago.

limbaugh/fluke. a young woman speaking out. and the attack of this woman.





then the male repugs attack on women

the panel of men talking to congress about the womans body






and more.....

did something to women across the nation. woke us up. i feel womens voice so strong and steady and worthy.

it feels like there is a change.

gingsberg dared to say:

“Now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay,” Ginsburg told the conference. “And when I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough and I say when there are nine, people are shocked.”

Ginsburg said that no one has “ever raised a question” when nine men were serving on the bench.

Ginsburg added that she felt “lonely” on the bench when she was the only woman on the Supreme Court after Sandra Day O’Connor retired.

“It was the wrong perception for people to see just a little woman and eight larger men,” Ginsburg told the crowd. “But now if you come to the court, we are all over the bench.”