By Tina Trent -- BombThrowers——Bio and Archives--February 7, 2017
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Prized possession: signed copy of Rosa Parks' autobiog. given to me by an uncle who went to a reading. Would've been her 104th b-day today! They're still going to be cisexual white women who need to examine their own privilege at the end of it. Anyway, enough unpleasantness. Let's talk about the scrapbooking. Action #1 of "10 Actions for 100 Days" involves a postcard women can download and play with endlessly before sending it to their senators. To get the postcard, they are carefully instructed on how to use home printers, or find quaintly described "print shops," or sign up for a chance to receive free cards through the Ink Cards app. No word on whether profits from the Ink Card app company will be collectively redistributed to gratify the economic platform of the socialist and communist organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the Communist Party USA that co-sponsored the Women's March. The postcards have a blank area to "make them your own." Women are told to "pour your heart out on any issue that you care about," so long as those feelings fit in the tiny box provided for feelings and conform to the "Unity Principles" of the march, which involve making sure everyone especially cares about "Black women, Native women, poor women, immigrant women, disabled women, Muslim women, lesbian queer and trans women." Women can pick from issues ranging from police brutality, to public subsidies for abortion and birth control, to an "all-inclusive Equal Rights Amendment," to disability rights, to open borders ("migration is a human right" and "no human being is illegal" the unity manifesto helpfully explains). There is also a section on "corporate gain or greed" destroying the earth, though there is no mention of corporate greed in the postcard-printing industry, or carbon footprints from flying, driving, and taking trains to rallies. Women can fill out the postcards alone (described grimly as: "go it alone"). But far better, they can invite "friends, neighbors and fellow Marchers over for a drink or dinner...to talk about your experience and fill out your postcards." Then they are instructed to take a picture of their postcard and tweet the picture at the march's official Twitter feed, where they can also find songs denouncing social ills like anorexia and bad relationships and dance steps to learn for future flash mob events. Grateful senators receiving the cards will be able to add many new names to their mailing lists before throwing them away, and grateful march organizers will have new names for their fundraising lists. There's also the least fun ever "worksheet for kids": a blank sheet of paper instructing children to invent a "community building super hero" who will "listen, think, run, fly and stand up for each other's rights." Crayons are not included for either activity. But you can trade in your underage daughters for additional intersectional street cred:Prized possession: signed copy of Rosa Parks' autobiog. given to me by an uncle who went to a reading. Would've been her 104th b-day today! pic.twitter.com/2euJsS3oDM
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) February 4, 2017
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Tina Trent writes about crime and policing, political radicals, social service programs, and academia. She has published several reports for America’s Survival and helped the late Larry Grathwohl release a new edition of his 1976 memoir, “Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen,” an account of his time infiltrating the Weather Underground.
Dr. Trent received a doctorate from the Institute for Women’s Studies of Emory University, where she wrote about the devastating impact of social justice movements on criminal law under the tutelage of conservative, pro-life scholar Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
Dr. Trent spent more than a decade working in Atlanta’s worst neighborhoods, providing social services to refugees, troubled families, and crime victims. There, she witnessed the destruction of families by the poverty industry, an experience she describes as: “the reason I’m now a practicing Catholic and social conservative.”
Tina lives with her husband on a farm in North Georgia. She blogs about crime and politics at tinatrent.com.