Worth a read and a reread! Not only about 2016 & the futures of democracy, but about #journalism and #writing. By the amazing Timothy Snyder. "The Trauma of 2016 (spy scandal, part 2): If we take the spy scandal seriously, we give ourselves a chance to heal"
https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-trauma-of-2016-spy-scandal-part

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Toward the light... Winter (Northern Hemisphere) Solstice
#writing #Solstice

The Barbara Deming/Money for Women Fund will be open for applications January 1-31, 2023 - this year its Poetry and Nonfiction.
More details on website here: https://demingfund.org/apply-pd-11.php
#writing #poetry #CNF #amwriting

On this #WorldAidsDay remembering Micheal Hardwick, the brave bartender who challenged Georgia's sodomy law. Hardwick won at the Eleventh Circuit, only to have #SCOTUS reverse in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986). While Bowers v. Hardwick was overruled in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the right to sexual freedom and same-sex relationships is again under threat from the present #SCOTUS.