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Sep 24

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A country where women are raped, harassed, denied rights to their own body, restricted from jobs, oppressed, and denied a proper education is a country I don’t want to live in. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a country where I, as a girl, did not have to wake up in the morning to a future of being a housewife. Where I did not have to wake up in the morning and be told that I was stupid for being a girl and that I do not deserve an education. And how is she repaid? By people trying to tear her legacy down, and create a new country where I am not worth as much as my male peers, classmates, and citizens. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served on the Supreme Court for 27 years, and she fought for women for years before that. Now, it is time for women everywhere to stand up and demand what we are owed. We must continue carrying the torch that Ruth Bader Ginsburg lit, and make sure it is never snuffed out.

Posted: 09.24.20

Sep 23

essay challenge: RBG

EverlastingWaves

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes - In Memory of RBG

On September 18th, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. One of the three women on the Supreme Court, she fought for Women's Rights. In memory of her, I found 9 of her quotes that may ring true for all of us.

1."When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough (women on the Supreme Court)?' and my answer is: 'When there are nine.' People are shocked. But there's been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."
2."We are a nation made strong by people like you."
3. "My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
4. “Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”
5. "Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
6. "I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability."

Posted: 09.23.20

Sep 23

poetry challenge: RBG

TreePupWriter

what if

i don’t have a flag to fly half-mast
i don’t have the words to say i miss you
i don’t have the mind to fully grasp
the fact that you won’t be with us from
here on out.

i never took the time to
research you
i knew you were amazing, but i
never quite learned why
i couldn’t quote you past I dissent (if I even
knew what a dissent was)
couldn’t explain to you why you were so important,
why we’ll miss you
so, so much.

i know i don’t get it.
i knew who you were, but not why you mattered.
i haven’t wept over the fact that you’re gone
i try to write a poem, but what if it’s only because
i think i should, because
i didn’t start writing it until there
was already a challenge asking for it?
and what if these words can’t reach you
reach anyone
what if they don’t say anything better
than the tiniest half-hearted thanks?

Posted: 09.23.20

Sep 21

poetry, song challenge: RBG

Mercury

A beacon of light

Ruth, I'm sorry.

Ruth, you meant so much.

Ruth, your words touch on things so sensitive so real and now that you're gone, I don't know how to feel.
On one hand, we all have to say goodbye one day but why today? We need you.
For on the other hand we haven't finished the work you started but how to start?
You're a general commanding fleets of equality and hope but my hope's starting to deplete.
Ruth, you've raised a mighty movement, a snarling butterfly of anger and denial and demands so long denied but
Ruth, we can't do what you can!
No, could; that's death, a shift. Can to could.
Ruth, would you show us a way to do the good that you did, now that you're gone?
We'll learn to live without you, but I don't want to move on.
Fragility is everywhere, and yet it's taboo.
I don't know how to be strong without you.

The president is squabbling, disregarding your wishes and

Posted: 09.21.20

Sep 18

poetry challenge: RBG

dogpoet

Notorious RBG (You are still here)

I don’t know what to say.
Rest In Peace sounds so hollow being typed on my phone’s keyboard.
You’ll never know how we mourned you
Now that you’re
Gone.
You’ll never know how it all ended;
What happens to the world now that you’re
Gone?
I wrote your life down on a piece of paper last spring
And it still slipped away.
Somehow I thought you’d still be there the day I died,
Putting on your lace collars
And dissenting.
I’m not qualified to sing your praises,
But thank you for everything you ever did.
Thank you for doing something that made us cry now that you're
Gone.
I hope maybe
You caught a glimpse of what we would do
Without you
Somehow, some way,
But the truth is
You made me realize
Just as you were leaving
How little time we have
To stay.
I don’t know what to say.
I should have thanked you while you were still here
To listen.

Posted: 09.18.20

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes - In Memory of RBG

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