Okay I just wanted to test out this thought I had this morning, well actually while I was bellowing on the street corner to my fellow Americans outside the San Francisco Tesla dealership, my favorite.
There's an aspect of protest that is like prayer, in that you're sort of bellowing the truth into existence. I was thinking when I'm yelling “YESSSSS” from my innards, to someone's honk of the horn, I am meeting them. I am meeting their voice with my voice and all of my own power, my yearning power.
And when I yell, “YES SIR, YES SIR,” to a man honking (I haven't quite figured out what to yell when it's a woman), I am sealing their voice and their expression with mine like a deepest grip handshake. That's how it feels.
Similarly, when I trigger-fast a “FUCK OFF” back to someone else’s “fuck you” or finger (I even heard myself saying, “fuck off so hard, so hard” and another passing driver laughed and honked with me), I am a steel surface against them. I am a bounce guard that hunts that sentiment to extinction. I am a wet thumb and finger pinching their last matchstick ember to black.
That's how that feels, energetically speaking.
When I stride and cowboy shimmy swagger stomp with my sign two hands held overhead tight as a drum, I feel my fuck-off joy energy heading out like a surge shot to each and every passing body, to each and every passing heart.
Here, here, here, feel good, feel strong, feel mad, feel funny. You are me and I am you in this feeling. We are so fucking US, not different. You rich lady, you muscle car young'un, you bus driver, you gay couple, you trans girl, you work truck guys, you young starlet young women, you old guy, you black family, you Sikh turban truck driver, you sleek people.
You, you, you, you, you are us. We are all so us. And it is good. We are making solidarity.
In each of those loud, connected, super connected, laughing moments, we are making solidarity. Anger, love, hope, aghastness, care, panic, our anger, our love, it's all solidarity in that moment of connection, over and over and over again.
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