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Here are some things I did in the last 48 hours. Minus most the sobbing and benders of which there are many though after awhile they blend into breaks between one and the other. Maybe it will help you figure out what to do yourself. 

Read this document, and ones similar to them. Sent it to the people I love. 

Scheduled appointments with every one of my doctors for follow ups and medication renewals and consultations. Psychiatrist, specialist, gynecologist, dentist, every -ist in my fucking book. Called my pharmacy to refill the scripts I can get refilled without doctor visits.  

Donated to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

Baked a cake while chain smoking aggressively (I recommend the former).

Got an IUD at Planned Parenthood - as a walk in for free, when it took me 4 phone calls and approximately 2 hours of time to get my insurance to give me a referral and answers and schedule me for a pap smear later on this month (come on). Here is a free clinic directory if a PP is not available in your area.

Walked through The Crisis Toolkit.

Listened to Rachmaninov and drank a bottle of wine on my kitchen floor.

Emailed my friends about what we’re all doing. 

Bought emergency contraception at the pharmacy for my friends in the future. Here is a coupon.

Made sure my roommates know how to use the pepper spray I bought for us. 

Downloaded Signal. Read through Security Culture for Activists. 

Signed up for many self defense workshops. Here’s one.

Research more about Living Wills and how to prepare your own will. If you’re <25 like I am this maybe has not occurred to you before. It would be helpful now. 

Refreshed on Know Your Rights, on organizing guides, and what hope is in the dark. 

Took a bath. 

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

here is a website where you can create your own galaxies

here is a website where you can play flow

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here you can play silk which is an interactive generative art designing website.

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

Spite, fuel me

“Initially, brewing was carried out as home brewing by women for domestic use only. It was part of the daily housework next to cooking and baking bread.” (Handbook of Brewing, Priest and Stewart, 2006)

“Traditionally, [African] beers are made by women brewsters, as was the case medieval Europe, and they may be consumed with some ceremony.” (Brewing, Briggs, Brookes, and Stevens, 2003)

And here are some articles:

A (Very) Brief History of Women in Beer

http://growlermag.com/women-in-beer/

“Women’s role in the history of beer is often forgotten,” says Sofie Vanrafelghem, author and master beer sommelier. “One of the very first written documents to refer to beer,” she says, “was an ode written 3,800 years ago to the Sumerian goddess Ninkasi, whose priestesses brewed beer in her honour.”

This data’s been on my radar for a while now. I remember being in one of our favorite places in Dublin, Porterhouse Central, and spotting a sign hanging up above one of the aisles that said BEERS BREWED BY MEN, NOT MACHINES. A nice enough sentiment, but unfortunately / unnecessarily gendered.

I was in a bit of a mischievous mood and said to the barman, “No women?” “Nope,” he said.

I said, “You should really get at least one woman brewer in here. For historical reasons if nothing else. Didn’t you know that until a couple of centuries ago it was illegal for men to brew in Dublin?”

He was kind of stunned. True, though. It was traditional in the city from Viking times that only women should brew. In fact there was a sense that it was unlucky for men to brew, that the beer would fail, that it didn’t like them.

My bartender was a little bemused by this. “But why would that be?”

I just kind of laughed. “Women,” I said. “Yeast. We have a relationship.”