~The Red Menace~

Radical Feminist, Anarcha-Socialist, Lezbian Queer Dyke Cunt Lover, Secular Humanist, Activist Social Change Agent, Mestiza-Classed, Community Builder, RED MENACE!!


I'm a Public Leader, Community Organizer, and Community Builder. And I'm also an Anarcha-Socialist who fights to eliminate capitalism and other political, social, and economic hierarchies to create a society without institutions where all people have equal access to knowledge and production, emphasizes trade unions and decentralized methods of direct democracy, and finds any institutional form to be abusive. And I'm a Radical Feminist who believes the cause of women's oppression to be within patriarchy and the cause of all oppression to be in the mimicked hierarchical structures such as capitalism and amerikkkanism and globalism and colonialism and imperialism and jesusgodism which means society needs to be recreated and not changed cuz change just rearranges the same shit in a different order. And I'm a Secular Humanist who believes we got ourselves into this mess and can only rely on ourselves to get the hell out. And I'm Mestiza-Classed: the educated working-class wonder! And a Lezbian Queer Dyke Cunt Lover. An active activist social change agent iconoclastic catalyst. A VOICE with capital letters that stand tall and out and above and are heard and seen...always an outspoken mouth on the pretty face of the strong head of an independent woman. I'm an individual within the collective. And a Revolution! I'm a ReVoLuTiOn! and revolutionizer. A riotous redhead. THE Red Menace!





Monday, April 6, 2009

Iowa Supreme Court Unanimously Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage: Stream of Consciousness from a Shocked and Blessed Iowa Native

I’m making history. It happened. I can’t believe it. It took a while for the hysterics to set in but now that they’re here, I can’t stop them. They’ve forced their way in.

Initially it was shock. I screamed shrieks of joy. There was an urge to contact everyone I knew – to call my mom and tell her her baby girl is a citizen now. I cried one little tear – a tear of shock really. My eyes were wide, and I was high above the world, watching – not really a part of it. I was watching the history, watching the story, watching the news leak out into the world hitting everyone simultaneously and gathering them together in solidarity. Though I felt the solidarity – I felt the pull to the gathering of people – I was still somehow watching it, seeing the arms around me rather than feeling the collective embrace.

I couldn’t move. Energy – so much energy – all bottled up but motionless. No where to put it but online, on the phone, in my blanket. Sitting on my bed with my laptop, alone but not alone. Everyone was there. Everyone was there in that moment.

I was frantic all over the internet: messaging, emailing, changing my facebook status. I found strength and pride in seeing every single status of every single friend express joy in the moment. I sent out a mass message and received words of happiness and congratulations from strangers. The internet bringing the word, sharing the word, sharing the moment: the dawn of a new era...

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality and announced their ruling at 8:40 am on Friday, April 3, 2009. I set my alarm to get up at 8:30, quickly got on 3 news-sites on the internet, turned on my facebook chat and conversed and speculated with all of my friends. I read her status “I finally have equal rights” and hit the central Iowa news station: “Iowa Supreme Court Says Same-Sex Marriage OK”. Read it twice – wasn’t clear, concise. “Iowa Supreme Court Says Same-Sex Marriage OK”. OK. OK. OK. OK.

IT PASSED!!!!!! Unanimously... 7

I’m an EQUAL citizen with EQUAL rights!!!

After the phone calls, the announcing, the mass messaging, it hit. Tears, streaming down, tears. I couldn’t stop crying.

Emotional roller coaster.

Complete high.

Whole new world. Beautiful morning. Beautiful moment. Beautiful future.


So much energy – trapped inside – no where to go but the internet, Microsoft Word, cell phone. Wanna run. Wanna scream. Wanna cry. Wanna stop crying. Wanna work - get shit done. Wanna puddle stomp – want a storm. Wanna talk – about the struggle, about the strife, the families, the lives. Wanna hug. Wanna kiss. Wanna make-out...with a lady. Wanna photograph the court house, the lines smothering streets. Wanna hoist a rainbow flag a-top the Old Capitol; this is my state. Wanna have sex with a woman stranger on the steps of the state house, unapologetically. Wanna let go – be free – dare to be free. Wanna get drunk, so incredibly drunk. All I can do is write...

It’s a high. I am high. I’m floating. I’m meshing. I’m heavy. I’m light. Scattered. Immobile. Itching. Striving. Happy. Rosy. Thrilled. Blissful. Joyful. Tickled-Pink!!! I’m gay – oh so GAY!!!

And Red. So very red. Red with courage – bold, fighting, courage.
Orange with openness, receptivenss, possibility – Oh the possibilities!
The challenge of yellow overcome,
Bleed to green with growth, solidarity, collectivity – power. energy. POWER! ENERGY!
And I – the blue pessimist – see solidarity. Miles.
And we – the people – are purple.
Love, together, peace, together, friends, together, family
TOGETHER...


Overwhelmed.
Overwhelmed.
Overwhelmed.
Energized.

She called me, my mom, she finally called me. I wanted to cry, but the roller-coaster wasn’t at the top. I wanted her to hold me, but she was too far away. But she did hold me. She showed me proud she was to have the equal right to a daughter-in-law. She held me tight as she displayed her pride far and wide across the internet. It was that coming out moment...again...all over again...
together
mother and lesbian daughter
mother and daughter
loving mother and loving daughter
Generations of Change...

So much to do – Time stand still – Let me fly.
Take a moment to celebrate.
With community
-the community-
and every rainbow I own...

Miranda S Welch
10:45 am
Friday, April 3, 2009
Iowa City, IA
21 years old

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