Tear it Down

There’s no one who saw her speak last night who could not have left knowing that, for all her faults, she deserved that presidency and it was stolen from her. Now it’s our job to claim that power back.

Last night I was in the same room as Hillary Clinton – and the 2,500 other people who, within two hours of the tickets being released, sold out the London theatre where she was being interviewed. 

Despite our relative proximity, the audience’s fidgety anticipation and adrenaline-fuelled nerves were in no way reflected back at us as Clinton presented her usual calm, charming, witty and breathtakingly eloquent self.

She didn’t say much you won’t already have heard if you’ve listened to any of the myriad interviews she’s been giving while promoting her book about the 2016 election campaign, the poignantly titled What Happened. 

But in those 90 minutes I spent in the audience, furiously taking notes and revelling in the buzzing atmosphere, I saw for the first time that she shouldn’t just have won that election because she was the voters’ rightful choice, or because of the sickening alternative that came to be, but because the passion and awe she can inspire with the faintest of smiles or by answering the driest of questions is unparalleled.

…But it’s not just her clear credentials, experience, level-headedness and mind-boggling intelligence which would have made her a great president; it’s her humanity, humility, humour and genuine passion that really hit me when I saw her speak live.

As a woman with the temerity to think I have the right to publicly voice my opinions, I’m no stranger to having abuse and threats hurled at me by droves of strangers over the internet. Yet I will never – hopefully – be able to fathom the level of vitriol Clinton has endured.

And yet at every fall Clinton gets up, dusts herself off, and climbs back into the ring for another round. Some may think it’s masochism, or a desperation to stay relevant, and I’ll admit that her strength seems so alien that sometimes I’ve wondered too. 

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and it got upgraded to first class

Joe Liebgott Modern Day AU in Blue

1.  Lift Me Up - Vince Staples 2.  Ghost Rider - Suicide 3.  The Passenger - Soiuxsie and the Banshees  4.  Dum Surfer - King Krule  5.  Ballad of a Thin Man - Bob Dylan 6.  Snake Eyes - Trouble 7.  Worst Behavior - Drake  8.  West Coast - Lana Del Rey 9.  Vicious - Reed 10.  Bring Da Ruckus - Wu-Tang Clan 11.  Night Time, My Time - Sky Ferreira 12.  The Narcissist - Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland

32.The Lightning Thief Yes it’s based on the Percy Jackson books but it’s also amazing and deals with kids with neglectful parents please listen to it

33. Dogfight Pre-Vietnam War marines on their last night in San Fransisco try to ruin girl’s self esteem but it turns into a show about loss of innosence, body image, and PTSD

34. Falsettos Everyone’s gay and you’ll cry. Was robbed at the Tony’s

35. If/Then Idina Menzel stars in two seperate musicals in a single show.

36. Billy Elliot Young boy in coal mining district of England wants to be a ballet dancer and his best friend’s a future drag queen (ft. Elton John slaying the music)

37. Starlight Express It’s literally just about trains racing

38. Waitress Currently on Broadway with music by Sara Berallis. Story about a woman in an abusive relationship who bakes as a coping mechanism

39. School of Rock Aspiring rock star teaches the importance of music to snobbish prep-school kids

40. Finding Neverland Based on the story of J.M. Barry, who wrote Peter Pan. Some of the most amazing tech elements I’ve ever seen in my life.

41. Anything by Starkid They’re a Youtube channel that produces original shows as well as parodies of things like: Harry Potter, Aladdin, and Batman

42. Hadestown Folk-opera retelling of the legend of Orpheus. There are two albums out there, the Original Cast and the Anais Mitchell version. Mitchell’s album is the original and has all the songs, but once you’ve listened to that please listen to the Original Cast version too

43. Come From Away Takes place in Gander on 9/11, you’ll probably cry.

44. The Last 5 Years There’s a movie version on Netflix with Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick. Would highly reccomend. Tells the story of two people’s lives through both perspective, one starting at the end and going to the beginning and the other moving in the opposite direction

Boston says: Honor Indigenous Peoples Day – Abolish Columbus Day! October 7, 2017.

so a racist got utterly demolished in less than 30 seconds on the New Zealand morning news on Monday and it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen

(clears throat deliberately) “’Janice’ says: Good morning. I’m sick of hearing that Māori need different treatment. If they don’t want to live in our society, then maybe we should put them all on an island and leave them to it.”

Male co-host: “Janice. That is LITERALLY what happened! That is the history of our country. Last I checked, Māori WERE on an island, they were left to it, and then Pākehā (Māori term for white New Zealanders) turned up and look how that worked out. But thank you very much for that brilliant insight. Goodness me. Unbelievable. Unbelievable, they actually-“

Female co-host: “Actually, you can’t even get angry, you just actually need to laugh and then screw it up and put it under the desk. Just when you thought-“