Just a self-care tip or whatever if you are someone who didn’t/ couldn’t go to the Marches this weekend and you are feeling guilty or defensive. Just donate (even a very small amount, $5, $10) to a women’s organization. There, done. Now you have nothing to feel guilty about because you also did your part and you now also don’t have reason to make annoying posts that disparage the march to cover your own defensiveness.
If anyone wants a specific recommendation: Nobody’s been fighting Mike Pence harder than the National Advocates for Pregnant Women . They are a smaller organizations that helps the women that are often profoundly friendless.
Okay, so I wrote this post in a quick flurry of irritation at the way I could already see ego and defensiveness being a motivator for how people talked about the march, and as part of my current semi-obsession with how ego trips up well-meaning change efforts. I really didn’t expect it to get a lot of notes and reblogs, but in retrospect I’m glad that other people are also looking for a healthy way to deal with the feelings of helplessness, guilt, nihilism, ego, etc. We’re all doing our best, man.
So, just to talk a little more about what I meant by NAPW has been fighting Mike Pence hard for years, they were instrumental in getting Parvi Patel out of prison in Indiana under the charge of feticide. They also have been crusaders to stop the shackling of pregnant women in custody and to defeat laws that criminalize pre-natal drug exposure. When I said they help women who are profoundly friendless, I meant that they are one of the few organizations I know that prioritizes mother who do drugs while pregnant as an oppressed and persecuted group.
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