First Tokes
a blog by Barbara Selke
a blog by Barbara Selke
12/20/24 This, losing the recent presidential election and its projected outcomes, just breaks my heart. I know, we were this close! And for the second time. (Remember Hillary?) At first, I was crestfallen. But then, I began to reminisce on the advances to fundamental women’s rights that had been made back in my day. I came of age when the Women’s Lib’s era made its mark on women’s history. On the ground, this is what the women’s movement in the ‘70s looked like: we didn’t have to be married to buy birth control. (1972) We could get our own credit…
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