A fabulous new grassroots campaign for marriage equality awareness is in town: White Knot .org
The white knot is the new symbol for marriage equality. It takes two traditional symbols of marriage—white and tying the knot—and combines them in a simple way to show support for the right of gays and lesbians to marry. All loving couples deserve the same legal rights, benefits, and respect that civil marriage bestows.
Visibility is our goal. Whether you are gay or straight, please show your support by wearing the knot and telling people why you are wearing it. It may seem like a small thing, but imagine the white knot gaining the pervasiveness and instant recognition of the AIDS Ribbon.
Wear your white knot to work, to school, to your place of worship. Celebrities will be wearing white knots down red carpets this awards season. Together, we will keep the topic at the top of people's minds and keep the conversation going.
They have instructions for making your own knot (which … really? ok.), download-and-print fliers, website/email badges, and an email list, plus they allude to plans for a White Knot Day of ribbon solidarity.
I mock, but only a little. I actually think this is a great take on the whole ribbon thing. (Although I wonder if raising visibility through the red carpet is such a hot idea, given that "Hollywood elite liberals" are not exactly influential amongst the kind of people who are against marriage equality to begin with.)
Anyway, every little bit helps. So go pin a white knot to your shirt, and more importantly, tell people what it means and why it's so important.
This morning you get to peek into my "Morning Thoughts" notebook. I've gotten into the habit of starting my day by jotting down all the thoughts swimming around in my head—things to do, dreams from the night before, ideas, wonderings, general observations … whatever's up there, really. It's a nice way to get my mind warmed up, plus it will make an amusing journal for my grandkids.
Here are 13 randomly selected entries from this morning's page:
Don't forget to call Dr. P. for Rx and Dr. S. re: insurance
I thought it was supposed to be warmer today. WTF?
Dad's never going to catch up on this season of House.
I really should spend a little time on FaceBook reconnecting. Maybe a video to all my friends? That would be easy enough.
OMG! The semester is almost over. How on earth am I going to finish this all?
Find that site selling the Lamy 2k's for $89.
Is Minty going to be in town next week? Send an email.
"Unconventional Enterprises" has a nice ring
Wish I had some cash to splurge on the J. Crew sale … cashmere tees are way cheap (relatively)
I wonder if taking a grant-writing class would help me, career-wise?
Man, those temporalis muscles are freaking out today!
I wonder if there's a Tampa Bay chapter of Toastmasters?
I wish I could just take the day off and curl up with my Kindle and some baked potato soup.
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It's almost as if they're saying, "So, breeders, this is the sanctity you're trying to protect, huh? This is the sacred institution that gays will ruin? Because it kind of looks like you've already done that yourselves."
Wine for Wheels is a partnership between superfancy California winemakers and the inestimable Wheelchair Foundation. For every $100 bottle of "cult" wine you buy, a wheelchair is donated to one of the 100+ million people with disabilities around the world who wouldn't otherwise have access to a mobility device.
The Wheelchair Foundation has been doing this awesome work for years, but it's this kind of partnership with the consumer-goods-oriented private sector that has real potential to change the world. It's rather like Product RED in that respect: people are going to buy stuff anyway, so why not harness consumerism for good?
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