Well, we’re coming to the end of Women’s History Month, and this feels like a good way to wrap it up: a quiz I gave to an NYC theater audience to determine: “Are You a Feminist?” It’s pre-pandemic, when we had live theater. Or at least theater that didn’t require you show a government document from the CDC. Visual aids! Sexy tree trunks! Female condoms!
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And thank you to Ayun Halliday, who produced this amazing variety series, Necromancers of the Public Domain, at The Tank—and who also shot the video! Graphics edit by Sophie Simpson. Good luck, comrades.
This week I did my first LIVE ONLINE performance. It was a blast!!
San Francisco theater company The Marsh asked if I’d do some excerpts from “Waste Management: The Show” on Zoom and YouTube Live on Wednesday night. And a little enviro-chat with the host and the Zoom audience. So of course I said, “Okay.” And then, “What did I just get myself into??”
But I transformed a corner of my dining room into a little TV studio, and voilà. You’ll get a sneak peek from my upcoming book as well, so grab a beverage, and settle in.
A woman with waaay too much on her plate gives herself 49 days to save the planet. (Or at least get people to use less plastic.)
. . . Aaaaaand, now we’re having an uprising. And a pandemic. Because some s#!t went down.
I obviously don’t need to recap why the world is on fire right now. So I’ll start with this Thursday, when I sat in my new little small-town home office, watched the memorial service for George Floyd in Minneapolis, and wept. I’m not normally a big fan of Reverend Al’s zazzle, but damn, when he said, “The reason why we’re marching all over the world is . . . ” Well, just watch him say it, in this short clip:
Preach, rev.
This post was originally supposed to be about a different topic: STUFF. Namely all the STUFF none of us need, and that we can now SEE we don’t need, because we’ve been doing without it for three seemingly endless months.
The news (and our federal government) likes to tell us that “retail has been suffering.”
Souvenir stuff
I heard a story on NPR about how “retail is suffering” in Ketchikan, Alaska, since the cruise ships aren’t coming there right now, which means there are no tourists to buy the made-in-china T-shirts and snowglobes filled with melting glacier water or whatever (hopefully that’s not an actual thing).
The real reason no one’s buying a bunch of STUFF right now is that we don’t need it. We need food, and, apparently, we need toilet paper. That’s about it.
You know what has been suffering? Black people. Human rights. Four-hundred and one years of white people putting their knees on black people’s necks. And this time we were stuck social-distancing in our homes, in front of our TVs and computers, so we could all see it go down.
Citizen Deb 