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Women Wear ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Costumes At Ruth Bader Ginsburg Vigil To Protest Trump And McConnell’s Actions
Deadline ^ | September 21, 2020 | Tom Tapp

Posted on 09/21/2020 8:53:57 PM PDT by EdnaMode

“He doesn’t have a lot of respect for women. We might as well be handmaids.”

That was the feeling among of a group of Orange County residents who, as they gathered to mourn the loss of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, also found themselves in shock and fearful of how Donald Trump might fill her seat.

In that spirit, 50-60 O.C. residents gathered at the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and US Courthouse in Santa Ana on Saturday for a vigil, but also to protest. There were kids, teens and adults, about 10 of whom dressed as handmaids from Margaret Atwood’s novel that became the Hulu series The Handmaid’s Tale.

“By next January, we’re all going to turn into Handsmaids,” said one of the event’s organizers, Lulu Hammad, who is founder of co-founder of Yailla Indivisible.

Hammad said that on Friday people she spoke with were “very sad and shocked that we lost RBG.” But, “the reason that we’re coming together,” she said, “is that all the women that I spoke to [on Friday], I heard terror in their voices.”

So they gathered up costumes that had been made for a 2017 post-election event and took to the streets. Little did they know how prescient the move was.

The event consisted of activists and also kids as young as 5, 6, plus some teenagers. They heard a speech from Farrah Khan, the Irvine City Council’s first Muslim member.

“She set the mood,” said Hammad, “reminding us who RBG was and that we shouldn’t despair; She left us with tools and we should continue the fight.”

Other people, including Hammad, spoke as well. There were candles, flowers and readings of quotes from Justice Ginsburg.

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To: EdnaMode

Doesn’t anybody actually work anymore?


61 posted on 09/22/2020 6:46:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (evience)
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To: EdnaMode

Bookmark


62 posted on 09/24/2020 12:02:33 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker (Keep calm and vote your conscience.)
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