#History #US #Democracy

104 years ago today, the 19th Amendment was ratified in Tennessee - by one vote, when 24-year-old Harry T. Burn listened to his mother and broke a House impasse.

This amendment gave white women the right to vote. First-gen Asian Americans? 1952. Native women? In states, as late as 1962.

For Black women, a semblance of equality was attained only with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Let us never forget that there was no Golden Era.

We have always been fighting hate.

Some tricked out rides line up as a few lads wait together early in the morning, before rolling as a unit into a car show
in the park today.

(SO much vehicular pride in #Colombia. And if your ride is your cab? No big deal in a land of fewer regulations! Trick it out, too, and chill with your lads for a few hours talking shop. 👌🏻)

Running "tune" today is the latest in the London Review of Books' Medieval LOLs series, which here looks at the representation of Sir Gawain over the era, and how his buff, yet "meek as a maiden" demeanour allows for some saucy scenes for middle-class horndogs of the era, as the knights of the round table barrel on, having grand adventures across the land.

(What, were you expecting reggaeton while I work out? #NerdForLife 😅)

#Podcasts #Literature

https://pca.st/episode/f7af9d2c-ee0e-4117-868b-e57d9020f77b

And... this morning we leave super early for a run, before recording for Patreon and BookTube, ahead of another day of book-reading for a paid review.

No uncouth older fellows en route are going to kill my vibe today. 👍🏻 Morning, 'Nauts!

And now it's time to...

(And begin anew. Back to work with me!)

Earlier this year I let all the street harassment shake me from my health routines, because it is often super hard to be a feminized person *existing* in a world with tons of lonely people who can't think of any other way to build community for themselves, except by interacting with feminized persons as sex objects. (And the fact that I am very white makes me exotic, too.)

This is why I often feel like a grumpy old man inside, and channel ol' porch-sitting, scowling Clint Eastwood for strength.

*talking

I got caught up in a *second* frustrating encounter, with an older neighbour who got hella handsy, first grabbing my hand, which he wouldn't let go of, then wrapping his arm around my waist and nuzzling my neck. It all happened fast and in plain view of others, so de-escalation was 100% on me, and that dude required me to navigate my escape route through "safe" people so that he wouldn't hound me all the way home.

Silly morning. But I'm not going to let this kill my return to routine.

I had a bit of a grumpy moment this morning, when a new guard at the park clocked me as a tourist because of a) my skin, and b) the fact that I was taking photos (tourist shit). He came over to offer "friendly" advice against making myself a target for thieves, which tweaked the immigrant "I'm always going to be seen as an outsider" crankiness in me for a hot second.

But, this is why I'm super careful about taking in English in public! Lesson learned, and life goes on.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-XJ8kxXFGBU?si=G-HN0V1jfe3u_vqH

End-of-day total:

1) Two new flash pieces: one for submission, one for free-to-read posting.
2) One piece I'm still fussing over before submitting. (The mag is more stylistically driven than many, and I feel like it's missing something. Three weeks left in the subs window, though!)
3) 2,500 words in another, though it needs earlier revisions before I can reach an ending.
4) One book read for paid review purposes.

All in all, a *very* good day.
Hope yours was, too! Night, CoSo.

#WritersOfCoSo

Okay, one more writing sprint starting at the half hour, aiming to finish something for a flash contest I came across today.

(Gotta fill up those queues!)

Next CAPTION CONTEST:

What's *actually* happening in this scene?

#StarTrek #Memes #Humour

🤨 I jotted down a silly 1,000 word flash piece in that writing stint.

I was *trying* to finish a serious novelette.

Writer brains!

Can't live with 'em...

Okay, the next sprint starts at the half-hour mark. Thanks for the laughs thus far! 🤗

Getting restless, so I'm going into timed writing sprints for the rest of the evening.

CAPTION CONTEST, for between sprints.

What *should* these two be saying here?

#StarTrek #Memes #Humour

Getting my newspaper today was a bit of a trip, but what a bounty of items!

1) For the word nerds, a column on correct usage of the comma around porque and pero (syntax differs between tongues!);

2) #OnlyInColombia: Colombia sits down with one of the dominant guerrilla groups here, ELN, to talk economics and peace (because the two are always related);

3) Mpox in Colombia: only two active cases! Stayin' sharp!

And...

4) Book fair a-coming! September 6-15! 🥳 Who's comin' with? 👀

#Colombia

@Minholkin!

The rain cleared, so I could "pick" these flowers for you.

Birthdays are such a lovely excuse to tell people how much we care for them and see how much they do for so many others - but you show that same generosity of presence and grace all the year round, with people in all states of need.

💛 Thank you for being you.

I hope that on this day of days you feel as seen by community as you make everyone else feel all the year through. (And may there be rest and good memories, too!)

😅 It was a very wet run, under intensifying rain, and now my phone is soggy and going into rice (it was incredibly difficult to send out the two voice messages I was able to), but I am a happy camper.

Now to hermit-up for the rest of the day. 👌🏻