Power games

Late on Sue’s birthday, we heard the news of the pending legal decision that will eliminate childbearing people’s rights to make decisions concerning their own bodies. 

Some streamed out to protest in the streets with signs and spray paint. Who listens to them? 

Some say we need to vote harder, though the Democratic Party, supposedly the party of the people, has had 49 years to put the court’s decision of 1973 into law, and they haven’t done it. Who shall we vote for?

Some say it’s time to burn this whole country down. But it’s already on fire from climate catastrophe.

Thanks to a link from WalkingMarj, Sue and I ordered copies of the book version of Carolyn Mendelsohn’s moving exhibit, Being Inbetween. They arrived this week. Powerful photographs of girls from ten to twelve. Bella’s age. I look into their faces as they live the transition from childhood to womanhood and I see that white supremacist patriarchs supported by billionaires want to control their bodies, their lives; they have the power to do that.

A weight comes into my bones. Despite all the work many my age have done, all their lives long, we have an oligarchy that is utterly unresponsive to the will of the people. This is what we have.