Happy Wednesday, Shit Givers.
My kids have actually been in school for approximately four hours since Thanksgiving, so. That’s great.
Lots going on this week here, amiright? A hell of a lot of it is out of your control, but — truly — you can still put a dent in a hell of a lot, with minimal stress.
Let’s focus on what you can control.
— Quinn
Buy: If you’re gonna buy a shirt, or skirt, or whatever, buy it second-hand (or from our shop!). Gem pulls secondhand products from eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, The RealReal, independent online stores, and more into one easy experience (go)
Buy: Go a little deeper and use Good On You’s updated rankings for ethics and sustainability! (go)
Be Heard: Inexplicably juuuuust a few days left in Virginia’s legislative session, which means there’s still time to yell at your reps to support constitutional amendments for marriage equality, reproductive rights, and more! (go)
Be Heard: Students who have to miss class because of period poverty is up there with “lunch debt” on the things that make me insane. Tell your state reps to fund period products in schools. (go)
Learn: There’s never been a better time to bone up on media literacy when you’re increasingly living in The Matrix/Bad Place! And there’s few better sources of reputable info than our friends at Crash Course. Enjoy. (go)
Get help and learn: Post-partum can be — to be it lightly — a bitch. Use Poppy Seed Health to get instant access to (real) doulas, midwives, nurses and more for your mental health needs — during pregnancy, or after. (go)
Donate: to disaster relief. Just pin this one to your browser from now until the end of time (go)
Donate: to food security. Egg prices (and everything else) are still stupid high (go)
Volunteer: to connect kids to nature (and off of their phones) (go)
Be Heard: about marriage equality. Virginia, you’re up! (go)
Volunteer: for Black lives. Whether that’s working on the disparity in maternal mortality rates, building political power, or supporting Black-owned food systems, there’s much to do here (go)
Donate: to the Vote Mama Foundation so more women and mothers can be elected into office, to advocate for policies that actually benefit families, like paid family leave (Moms are always right, we all know this) (go)
Volunteer: to prevent the next pandemic with Global Health. They’re building a trusted, open-source, real-time resource for infectious disease data (go)
Learn: about how gender inequality is correlated to climate change, how fun! Which means that women’s empowerment = climate action (go)
Thanks to Willow for jumping in and helping knock this out today — we have a whole hell of a lot on our plate (including launching our new podcast tomorrow!), so it’s all hands on deck.
Feeling similarly frazzled? Remember — Important Members can save actions for later with an WCID profile!
Thanks for reading, and as always, for giving a shit.
— Quinn
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