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Femicide; Rape.

Sex Trafficking.

(A few thoughts in response to the "post election blues" that we are feeling, according to every major newspaper in the nation... "where am I to put the energy I've put in Obama for so long."  Stop yer bitchin'.  If you don't know where to put your energy, it's because you aren't looking.  If you feel let down and aimless now that Obama got the job, you missed the point.)  

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[Rachel]

I appreciate the links to the videos. I have been in dialogue with folks who let one specific issue keep them from voting for the democratic candidate or seeing the value of this President-elect, when there are so many other issues to consider as well... especially worldwide issues that our President can have an effect on, like the ones in the links. So, my own feelings about the world happenings and reading your blogpost culminated in my desiring to post a little something to ya. Keep speaking.

[Charis]

Word.
Thanks woman. I miss you. AND, I have found that during a time when pain is looming and throbbing in my own life, remembering the pain of others is grounding. It's always so important to remember those who suffer and to act, but I find it almost MORE important when I myself am feeling pain. It's easy to think I am the center of the universe.
I am not.
Recently I have mocked a few people (christians) who experience suffering in their own lives and then say "OOHH, Jesus must be coming soon." But it's so easy to feel that "pain narcissism". As if, when my own world is collapsing, so must the whole world be collapsing. I don't want to be so selfish. I want to feel my own pain, but not to the detriment of the suffering that always, always exists. Damn suffering.