Last night, CJ, my 7 year old daughter, asked if she could get a spiked dog collar. To wear.  On her own neck.  For the first day of school.
My first response, was, “What?  Why?”  as I had flashbacks of my own teen years, vacillating between heavy metal and emo, and all the lost angst I personally felt manifesting itself in my 7 year old baby girl. I thought I had time before this style (although I love it) piqued her interest.
She answers, beaming from ear to ear.  ”Because, I want …

There was a time when voting  was considered a radical act, when the suffragists marched, demanding that they had their own voice, that they were able to speak for themselves.  There was a time when women walked to that ballot box, slipped in their ballot, BEAMING that they stood for their own convictions, that they were able to choose for themselves.
That time is no longer.
Voting has normalized.  We walk up to the election officials, we hand over our id’s, we enter the ballot box and we do what we do. …

Today the Wake County School Board in Raleigh, NC  will meet.  Today, the school board will further discuss their plans to redistrict the schools, effectively ending a decade-long policy aimed at creating socio-economic diversity in Wake County Schools.  Today, thousands will meet in downtown Raleigh to protest this decision, this decision that has been described by Claude Pope, chairman of the Wake County Republican Party, as a “mandate” by voters. The school board argues in favor of neighborhood schools and to end busing of students to create economically diverse schools.  They argue …

She Acts  is the brainchild of  blogging conference I attended last year.  I attended a session on political blogging with Joanne Bamberger of Pundit Mom.  The session was small, only a select handful of women attending as the idea of political blogging sparks FEAR in many female bloggers.  However, the session was poignant, inspiring, and interesting.  We spoke about getting involved in the political process, about working in our communities, about overcoming fear of expressing opinion. At the time, the political debates on healthcare and the economy were ramping up, …