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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

What do you write? This week in writing

March 8, 2018 by Kate Mayer Leave a Comment

This week has been very productive for banging the keyboard. Not pay wise, but advocacy wise. Does it make a difference? I like to think so, and doing nothing is not an option.

Everybody’s a writer, but not everyone writes what others want to read, you know, on the beach. Or a long flight. Or waiting in line at parent pick-up.

This week, for example, I put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard on a variety of subjects, none of which will get me on Oprah.

• Press release announcing candidacy for a local Newtown woman, smart, successful, local community organizer and professional fundraiser Rebekah Harriman-Stites, running for Connecticut state representative because act local, think global and we women need representation in office. Any office. Especially an office filled with middle aged, mediocre white men.

• Email to Amazon slamming them for supporting, and promoting fear-driven NRATV, even when another school gets shot up and families destroyed and communities devastated because of:

  1. Choreographed marketing of fear by the NRA.
  2. Bought and paid for Congress who offer nothing but hopes and prayers each and every time this happens. Note to Congress: hopes and prayers ain’t working. 

• Thank you letter to Dick’s Sporting Goods on behalf of Newtown Action Alliance, families, communities impacted, and gun violence survivors, for doing what Congress will not: instilling limits on who can purchase what weapons of war.

• Thank you note, on behalf of Newtown Action Alliance, to major Florida GOP fundraiser, Al Hoffman, Jr., who decided he will no longer support candidates who do not support a ban on assault weapons. Period. Well done, Al. Can I call you Al?

Calls to action to email, call or somehow “Contact your State Representative”

• I do it. When I can and when I care. I emailed my current state rep here in Connecticut, Tony Hwang, and my town rep Mitch Bolinsky (who, for locals keeping score, the above mentioned candidate Rebekah Harriman-Stites is running against), about the hate slandering of a Chief Justice nominee Andrew McDonald in CT who is the target of ultra-conservative smear campaign focusing not on his experience, but instead on his sexuality. Can you even believe this is necessary in 2018? WTF.

• Oh yeah, multiple work emails like everyone else with a real J-O-B.

• And this blog post. Just this one.

This is writing. This is doing. What are you doing?


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An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...

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