This is what I have been doing. I am making noises and had 3 people go with me to the Texas Democratic Women’s meeting. I was shocked that so many showed up we were standing room only.

My rep’s office wouldn’t tell me how he voted. Not that I really ever trusted the motherfucker before, but every silence is complicity.

Hey Crispyfur... I’m in Texas too. They want us to give up. Think about it. Harris county went totally blue in all county positions including going for Clinton. All of south texas went for Clinton. El Paso, San Antonio, Austin and even Dallas went for Clinton. I think the state could seriously go purple if we get…

I just called my rep and his office says the rule has been abandoned. So, there is no official record of vote*. I told them I would be keeping an eye on this and letting all my neighbors know what is happening. Also, I told them it was spoke volumes that this was done so underhandedly and I expect my representative to…

while I agree that to Americans they aren’t, I know lots of people from that part of the world who will fight you tooth and nail on the fact that they are white. So she may actually identify as white despite being Iraqi.

Also where film is concerned diversity does not equal white woman plus MOC. I hope we stop erasing black/asian/latino women in 2017.

It doesn’t matter. I will be seeing it twice in support of the movie.

I know our views are divergent on a lot of different things but I made it a point not to surround myself with an echo chamber. He’s the type of Republican that’s needed representing his constituents.

If Jesus were to appear reincarnated in the U.S. next month, he’d be ratted out by an evangelical and deported by Trump.

Welllll, my little scientist piped right up with a shit ton of questions and got himself kicked out of class. And after the service, the teacher asked my aunt to please never, ever bring him back again.

As a Houston woman, I agree with this statement.

Damn!

Man that’s wild. I mean the old joke about “two Jews, three opinions” i know I know but I just thought Christians were similar at least. It’s so weird that debate isn’t valued. How else do you learn?

I also had a co-worker talk and she said that when she was a single mom and alone and went to get social services, she said she was denied services and was told by the receptionist that if she was a minority, she would have actually got help.

Exactly. For example, there is a radio program that used to* do something call Roula and Ryan’s roses. It was basically trying to catch men cheating or lying by seeing who they would send free roses if given the opportunity. I hated this more than I can say and actively tried to avoid it. So, there was one situation…

Preach sister, preach!

I feel ya. As another brown woman, I choose to stay in my home state of Texas. I have a vested interest to keep it safe for the multitudes of relatives that I have here that will never leave. I live in Houston (which is a blue island in the see of red). I want my state to do better and I feel I can do more here and…

Stay in the metro areas. I am a native Houstonian and we are a rowdy not knowing our place bunch of all kinds of people. I do recommend keeping the suck out of the small towns. Those places scare the crap outta me.

I’m in Texas and the only thing I feel we have in common is the weather. I spent last week calling my state* representatives and voicing my displeasure.

My mother (religious conservative Christian) hinted as much, that because she had had abortions in her early 20s, she “suffered the consequences” of having a daughter (my sister) with Down Syndrome. I looked her in the eye and said “Mariah is NOT a punishment.”