3 days after the election, we held an emergency book club meeting. We've been following Hillary in our book club for a year... we first talked about it when we did our Gender Stereotypes chapter-- and we noticed the different treatment Hillary got compared to the male candidates. We took note at how she reacted and responded to criticism and bullying. It's been a lot to process the election results on many levels-- but specifically within what we'd been focused on in our mother-daughter book club, it's tough to reconcile how a woman who worked so hard and had so much experience lost to a man who had no experience and a poor work ethic.
We read Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, we made beaded safety pins to wear to show we are allies (above), we talked about how we feel and what we can do, we quilted a square for Hillary's quilt, we wrote to Hillary to thank her for being an inspiration and role model.
We are girls. We are women. We are mothers. We are strong.
We fight for what's right and for what we believe in.
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Our quilt square for Hillary's Thank You Quilt (All Hands In)
Still I Rise..
Letters to Hillary
That one's mine!
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