I have zero hope this will succeed. On a day when they started the ACA repeal process, promised to defund PP, began planning to build a fucking racism wall, and asked diplomatic envoys to resign on 1/20 without crucial replacements on board, I’m just super fucking scared and angry right now.

Perfect. Here’s an example of how empathetically she engaged a member of the public who identified as a survivor of sexual assault: http://www.mtv.com/news/2948077/im-the-survivor-who-called-out-omarosa-for-defending-trump/

Definitely! :)

Same! I’ve been volunteering with the event from its early days. Can’t wait to see it all finally come together!

I’ve been volunteering for this event nearly since it began. What I can tell you is that it’s been grassroots personified: at times messy and chaotic and, at other times, a beautiful machine of good intentions harnessed. While there have been missteps (ahem, the name), the people running the show at the national level…

Yes to everything you’ve just written. Had I been hired, I would have taken a big pay cut. And yet I’m still so sad I didn’t get picked. I just feel so driven to spend the rest of my career in this space, even knowing I’ll make less money despite working really damn hard. The intensity of my disappointment seems like…

Thank you so much, both for the encouragement and the stellar recommendations. This is a bit of a career shift for me - while I’ve always worked with nonprofits, they haven’t ever been explicitly feminist-focused - and I’m in my early 40s so I definitely have some anxiety re: how to do this well. Your suggestions are…

This is *incredibly* helpful. Thank you!!! I’ll look into doing all of the above so that I’ll be even more qualified the next time. Seriously - thank you!

Thanks, friend. I have a background in nonprofit management and work with volunteers but I also lack political organizing experience. Not sure how to gain it in a non-election year though...

Hi all! So I didn’t get the job I wrote about a few weeks ago. It would have been an awesome community organizing position with a women’s rights org and I made it to being one of the final three candidates. Devastated that I didn’t get hired... :/

I really can’t stand her. (Look, people who said I voted for Hillary just because I have a vagina: I’m not supporting this powerful person just because she’s a woman! See how that works? #stillangry)

Here’s my new-ish fave sad Christmas song, courtesy of The Both (Aimee Mann and Ted Leo):

Everything is terrible and everything hurts.

If a raging feminist punk band call God’s Righteous Baby Hole doesn’t launch from a red state garage in 2017, I will be wholly (hole-y) disappointed.

Fuck him. Fuck Trump. Fuck the electors. Fuck the Berniebros who protest voted. Fuck anyone who could have easily voted but actively chose not to.

That’s what I hope. I hope she spearheads efforts to improve quality of life for women and girls worldwide. She can continue to do a lot of good...

Of the many post-election thinkpieces I’ve read, this one by Rebecca Traister may have come closest to expressing why I, like others in this thread, are still grieving: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/hillary-clinton-didnt-shatter-the-glass-ceiling.html

Same.

alas, the only way to get in is to have a friend who is a member add you. Perhaps check with your friend list to see who can get you in?

Totally agree