… but women are too emotional to lead the country…

And for Apple Music, let us search by lyrics.

Be strategic. Call your representatives and make them feel the ire. Find like-minded folks to organize and nurture your community. Tap into your strengths. Pick one local facet of this chaos and put the work there. They want us scrambled but we will be resilient.

History says that these “wellness farms” will just new reeducation camps or conversion therapy camps.

So… what info can we expect about H5N1? No tracking of how it’s spreading? 🥺

Oh, and that great aunt with the twins? Tragic story. Her husband was eventually freed but was traumatized from his POW experience. He beat her mercilessly. She sent her kids to live for months at a time with my grandparents. She ended up dying in childbirth.

My grandpa feared I would miss his last days (he had a degenerative disease). But he insisted I go because "that's how we keep peace going". Imagine that: an undereducated farmer who survived a war and is supportive of his descendants stretching their wings beyond the border. I miss him.

Now imagine only 2 generations later: I am lucky to get a scholarship to study abroad in college. When I told my grandparents I was going to study in Germany for a year, my grandpa cried.

She talked about the guinguettes, of the Reconstruction era (look up Le Havre). She’s now 101 years old. She remembers the America that came to save her. I haven’t talked to her yet about the Inauguration and the Nazi salutes. But I know already that she won’t comprehend it.

I don’t remember my grandparents saying much more about the Occupation. But they talked about the joy of the Libération (brought in by British, Canadian, American and colonial troops). My grandmother talked about how the silk of parachutes ended up being used to make bridal gowns.

When she told me this story a few years ago, she said that her screams caught the attention of another officer who came and pulled the drunk bastard off her. Let’s be honest: that’s the only ending she could share with me. But in 2020, at 97 yo, she was still crying over this moment.

She was also afraid that her dad would blame her for « seducing » a Nazi officer if he came home now to find both of them in her bedroom. She knew of the shunning that happened to girls and women who « fraternized » with the enemy. She felt stuck and scared with potentially life-changing outcomes.

The Nazi occupiers were not supposed to enter this space, but this one did. He started slurrying something in German at my teen grandmother. She got spooked, and tried to seek refuge in her bedroom. He followed her. She started screaming but her parents were too far to hear her.