Just Before I Vote

It would last actually weird if, inward 20 years or so, my posterity reads my weblog in addition to wonders why inward the public I didn't write 1 ship service most this election.

So hither it is.

In most an hr Chup in addition to I are going to pick out our Erin in addition to Iris to the Rec Center thus nosotros tin vote early. Voting early on is on my listing of life hacks.

This is the start fourth dimension Utah is considered a "swing state" although it's non really. It volition become GOP whether that's Trump or Evan McMullin. Even still, we've had flirting from the DNC in addition to that feels good. And weird. And exciting.

Because of this election I got to chat alongside NYC Mag's The Cut most beingness a Mormon feminist. I too got to host an intimate chat alongside Ann Holton, married to Tim Kaine--Hillary's selection for VP. And that was lovely. In a sunny room off of capitol colina inward SLC, nosotros chatted most life in addition to run balance, faith in addition to Hillary Clinton's platform for women.

Oh yes, that's right, I'm alongside her.

Being alongside her inward a province that has an unwritten pledge to loathe all things Hillary Clinton agency that yous are inward risk of losing your social condition inward certainly circles. I receive got class of approached everything alongside a "burn inward all to the ground" attitude. Sexism does that to me. Maybe it's my approaching 40th birthday in addition to lifelong frustration alongside patriarchy, but this election has made me pretty bold.

I know she's a flawed candidate. I tin encounter how people don't trust her. I larn that she's non likeable (in the way yous desire women to last likeable). But her struggle feels thus personal to me. She's had to struggle similar hell in addition to she's yet standing--and that's of import to me because I've never seen it done before. And I ask to encounter it done. What volition nosotros gain from a patch amount of women who struggle in addition to rest potent in addition to don't plow over upwards until their voices are heard from the very, really top? We don't know. But I am willing to bet it's going to last radical, transformative in addition to ultimately healing.

She understands women's wellness (in all its complications in addition to strata) in addition to children's justice, in addition to cares most taking attention of the earth. Those are my 3 things-women's bodies (all women, all consent, all bodily autonomy, all mental wellness, all torso acceptance, but specially women who are marginalized, silenced, unseen in addition to unprotected), children's access to resources (but specially children who don't receive got resources), in addition to the earth.

Of course of written report in that place are more, but everything pretty much boils downward to those 3 things.

It's been lonely. I receive got a few honey friends, in addition to a few household unit of measurement members hither inward Utah who I receive got been able to achieve out to when things receive got gotten rough. Many times Mormonism has mingled alongside the political in addition to that brings on a tidal moving ridge of frustration for me. The sexism has been awful. The sexual onset stories receive got been difficult to read (but important) because they achieve for memories I've tried to larn out behind.

It's fourth dimension to hold off at our sexism, America. Time to halt defending patriarchal practices. Time to usher inward the flavour of equality. Time to examine the racism in addition to ableism nosotros were all baptized inward from generations earlier us.

I am going to vote for Hillary today,  but I am non ignorant of what that means. It agency it's most to larn messy inward America. On peak of the racial tensions burning already, we're most to add together gallons of misogyny. And if nosotros don't come upwards out ameliorate in addition to on peak of all this, in addition to thus possibly nosotros actually aren't the special province nosotros ever believed nosotros were.

But I am a believer. I believe. And I am going to vote similar a believer today.

And in addition to thus I am going to larn to work.





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