This is the e-mail that made me feel well, even for a moment. thank you, Liz…I survived Hurricane Helene in NC last fall, the election nearly gutted me in November then I lost my reproductive health career in February due to to this insane administration that doesn’t think we need USAID or foreign aid….but you’ve reminded me, I shall continue to carry on…one day at a time ❤️keep writing, keep inspiring. we need you.
Thank you for this email. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one with this dread (in my deeply red, Midwest state.) It helps to hear there are people who see it for what it is.
Thank you, Chips, feels like an insufficient response but all I can muster at the moment. Your words captured how it feels to live through this Trumpster Fire and reminded me we can do hard things, especially when we stick together.
OMG yes. I’m a therapist. In the first weeks it was really hard to be present for my clients’ panic along side my own. Now when clients explicitly tell me they think everything will be fine (and most of my clients are LGBTQ+!), or that they’ve stopped paying attention and are far more concerned about their mundane life issues, or are just throwing their hands up like “whatcha gonna do!” I have to use my therapist skills and training real hard, because I want to say NOOOO! You SHOULD be freaking out and doing something!!! This is bad, please don’t check out, please participate, do something!!! But I don’t. I write here and post in online spaces instead :) So yes, I completely get it.
I don't know how you do it. I crawl from one silent homicidal rage to another, getting smaller and smaller. You manage to preserve what I can only imagine is a vast reservoir of energy and joyfulness and you surround the murderous pinheads with intelligent - and I mean very smart - insight and percipience (I just looked it up - I needed the right word). You are able to absorb the chaos and dispense percipience. A superb skill that I envy.
my daughters and nieces and friends’ kids in college need this kind of support and buoying from the sisterhood. They’re trying to become young adults in this burning, scary world.
i know - and they really need millennial big sisters like you! I mean having strong mamas is a gift, but I know many also feel like they lack and desperately desire mentors in the fight who are seeing this all and fighting with them
in mind. You’re my “younger” inspiration for so much (and damn i freaking love you for that 💓) but to them your generation is a step far away from them. How can millennials pull them in closer? they need you! and their mamas need them to have you 🥺
I’m so glad this is the first email I read today. You are so right. Many before this have had to persevere through worse. We can do this. Keep calm and carry on. We have to stay strong💚
beautifully written Liz and incredibly supportive. You’re a spirit doula for our time, that for sure. Companioning, naming the hard while showing and reminding (because i forget, the remember, the. forget….) that we are made for this moment. I used that to power me through childbirth, and advocating for how I wanted it to be and who i wanted to be my providers despite assumptions and pressures from many directions to the contrary. Our ancestors bequeathed us courage, fortitude, tenacity, and the gift of one another for exactly now. This inheritance at its peak value and strength in the generations here now. It is embedded in our cells and in the cells of generations not yet here 🙌✨❤️🔥✨ As long we keep remembering this is our lineage and our liberty, we will carry on, and always “we”, together. Thank you for saying all the things I am feeling out loud 🫶🫶🫶
Thank you so much for this piece. I sorely needed this truth. The surreality of the DT/Musk regime is unrelenting. Their cruelty and lies have no bounds... I suppose (know, per Bannon's playbook) that was the plan all along.... flood the field with so many attacks on decency, that decent, empathetic folks are thrown so off their centers they cannot regroup and respond. Finding equanimity in this time is critical. Thank you for reminding us of other times, parts of this world that endured and rebuilt and preserved despite the cruelty of the people and systems around them. To ground myself, I turn often to how people endured and found joy in during enslavement and genocide. The regrouping of self and in community is so essential. Thank you for helping me to feel both today.
Young-teen-girl dad here. Thank you for this. i'm sharing your posts with her, and letting her also know others have been thru very tough times too. Your words and example are an inspiration to help us get through this, together.
This is the e-mail that made me feel well, even for a moment. thank you, Liz…I survived Hurricane Helene in NC last fall, the election nearly gutted me in November then I lost my reproductive health career in February due to to this insane administration that doesn’t think we need USAID or foreign aid….but you’ve reminded me, I shall continue to carry on…one day at a time ❤️keep writing, keep inspiring. we need you.
we need you too and each other!! keep going marta!!!!
I’m very tired of being the This is Fine dog.
Thanks, Liz. This is what I needed to read today.
i’m so glad it was helpful for you kit ❤️
brilliant, brilliant. thank you for always capturing my fear/anxiety/malaise into a love letter. 'apocalypse admin' feels pretty accurate.
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Thank you for this email. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one with this dread (in my deeply red, Midwest state.) It helps to hear there are people who see it for what it is.
you’re not alone!!
Thank you, Chips, feels like an insufficient response but all I can muster at the moment. Your words captured how it feels to live through this Trumpster Fire and reminded me we can do hard things, especially when we stick together.
you said it so well bethany ❤️✊ stronger and fiercer together!!
Keeping calm and carrying on is an act of bravery and defiance in the swirling storm we find ourselves in ✊ 🫂 💙💙
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OMG yes. I’m a therapist. In the first weeks it was really hard to be present for my clients’ panic along side my own. Now when clients explicitly tell me they think everything will be fine (and most of my clients are LGBTQ+!), or that they’ve stopped paying attention and are far more concerned about their mundane life issues, or are just throwing their hands up like “whatcha gonna do!” I have to use my therapist skills and training real hard, because I want to say NOOOO! You SHOULD be freaking out and doing something!!! This is bad, please don’t check out, please participate, do something!!! But I don’t. I write here and post in online spaces instead :) So yes, I completely get it.
I don't know how you do it. I crawl from one silent homicidal rage to another, getting smaller and smaller. You manage to preserve what I can only imagine is a vast reservoir of energy and joyfulness and you surround the murderous pinheads with intelligent - and I mean very smart - insight and percipience (I just looked it up - I needed the right word). You are able to absorb the chaos and dispense percipience. A superb skill that I envy.
you give me the courage to get up and write everyday!!! ✊
my daughters and nieces and friends’ kids in college need this kind of support and buoying from the sisterhood. They’re trying to become young adults in this burning, scary world.
they are so strong even though i wish they didn’t have to be 🥺
i know - and they really need millennial big sisters like you! I mean having strong mamas is a gift, but I know many also feel like they lack and desperately desire mentors in the fight who are seeing this all and fighting with them
in mind. You’re my “younger” inspiration for so much (and damn i freaking love you for that 💓) but to them your generation is a step far away from them. How can millennials pull them in closer? they need you! and their mamas need them to have you 🥺
I’m so glad this is the first email I read today. You are so right. Many before this have had to persevere through worse. We can do this. Keep calm and carry on. We have to stay strong💚
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Wow. I had no idea how much I needed this email today. It did not find me well, but left me feeling inspired and maybe even a little hopeful.
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beautifully written Liz and incredibly supportive. You’re a spirit doula for our time, that for sure. Companioning, naming the hard while showing and reminding (because i forget, the remember, the. forget….) that we are made for this moment. I used that to power me through childbirth, and advocating for how I wanted it to be and who i wanted to be my providers despite assumptions and pressures from many directions to the contrary. Our ancestors bequeathed us courage, fortitude, tenacity, and the gift of one another for exactly now. This inheritance at its peak value and strength in the generations here now. It is embedded in our cells and in the cells of generations not yet here 🙌✨❤️🔥✨ As long we keep remembering this is our lineage and our liberty, we will carry on, and always “we”, together. Thank you for saying all the things I am feeling out loud 🫶🫶🫶
Thank you so much for this piece. I sorely needed this truth. The surreality of the DT/Musk regime is unrelenting. Their cruelty and lies have no bounds... I suppose (know, per Bannon's playbook) that was the plan all along.... flood the field with so many attacks on decency, that decent, empathetic folks are thrown so off their centers they cannot regroup and respond. Finding equanimity in this time is critical. Thank you for reminding us of other times, parts of this world that endured and rebuilt and preserved despite the cruelty of the people and systems around them. To ground myself, I turn often to how people endured and found joy in during enslavement and genocide. The regrouping of self and in community is so essential. Thank you for helping me to feel both today.
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Young-teen-girl dad here. Thank you for this. i'm sharing your posts with her, and letting her also know others have been thru very tough times too. Your words and example are an inspiration to help us get through this, together.