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I AM BEING SQUASHED BY THE MAN

  • Jan. 12th, 2005 at 7:56 AM
now I know how joan of arc felt
Last night I got an email from the Dean of my Lawskool explaining that the Academic Vice President of the University has decreed that I can sell Vagina Monologues tickets on campus provided that:

1. I am DISCREET
2. I do not use any advertising, posters, flyers, tabling or the email system
3. There is no "abortion rights related prozelytizing"
4. NONE of the proceeds go to "abortion rights groups or causes"

Well, seeing as how 10% of every ticket sale goes to CounterCrisis Northwest (in case you are new, thats my start-up abortion fund for women who have experienced rape or domestic violence),

I CAN'T EVEN SELL TICKETS PERSON-TO-PERSON ON SCHOOL PROPERTY.

Yup, that 8-10 cents going to CounterCrisis means I can't ask anyone at school if they wanna buy a ticket.

Not in private conversation
Not in emails
No.

You know what?

They can't stop me from giving them away for free.

If you have a few extra bucks, go to my info page and paypal me $8. For each $8 donation I will walk up to some deserving law student and hand over a free ticket,

RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF GOD, FATHER SPITZER AND EVERYBODY. ON CAMPUS, IN A PRO CHOICE T-SHIRT, EVEN!

I would love it if I could hand out enough to make a ruckus, cuz how are they going to stop that?

If you have it, please paypal me. If you don't send me some love. I am going to need it.

ETA: PLEASE LINK TO ME IN YOUR LJ AND COMMUNITIES!

It will make me cry tears of joy. I cry easily and well when I have not had any sleep because I am so fucking pissed off and raging, so I promise it will be a good, solid cry.

Here is the url for my userinfo page with the paypal button: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=zorah

I want to make them very, very sorry that their fascist bullshit actually sold far more tickets than if they'd just let me have a damn table and some signs!

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[info]miz_kitty wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:26 pm (UTC)
I can't think of anyone I hate worse that SPITZER, except maybe Shrub.

When are we calling the Inlander? I am so tired of this bullshit.

I came to the conclusion yesterday that one of the reasons I was dreading going back to school was because I feel like I am being buried by an oppressive regime.

BTW, are you still doing Women in Black?
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:31 pm (UTC)
Yes! We are, every Friday. And you know what we could use? Some really fabu professional arty pictures of us doing WIB. HINT.

I can't BELIEVE this. This amounts to regulating the content of my person-to-person contact, conversation and interaction with other students, faculty and staff.

The Inlander is not yet interested, but may be if we caused a big enough ruckus. I am not allowed to do anything to personally embarrass the school or I may get and honor code violation.

This school is trying to kill me. It is trying to drive me insane and kill me with evil, oppression induced stress.
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[info]irrtum wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:36 pm (UTC)
Words fail me. I'd like to think that nothing like that ever happens here but I'm sure it does, maybe less explicitly. You are very brave!
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:45 pm (UTC)
I dunno about brave. There is a point where they start regulating me being myself, the person I am. I can't BE anyone else, you know?

They gave me a big fat scholarship partially because of the radical activist resume I sent them complete with this icon on it.

What the hell did they think I was going to do when I got there, hold bake sales? (Not that there is anything wrong with bake sales - but a pro-choice bake sale? That make no sense.)
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[info]leenacia wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:39 pm (UTC)
Your school floors me. It really does.

I bought two tickets. :)
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:46 pm (UTC)
Now I put on Le Tigre and I dance, dance, dance!

Suddenly my mood lightens!

We will rock them with our grrl rock. Like they have never been rocked before!
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[info]dinpik wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:41 pm (UTC)
Donated.

Any other university/college papers you could drop the story to? Emphasize the irony of a lawschool deciding the First Amendment didn't apply to everyone.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:48 pm (UTC)
gh, this town licks their shoes because their 'sleepy little Jesuit Skool basketball team' has been making it into the finals with the big boyz in recent years, and we all love our zags!

But if we cause enough of a ruckus, they will cover it. (They did when the skool BANNED the monologues in 2001.)
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[info]anne_jumps wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:42 pm (UTC)
$8 sent.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:50 pm (UTC)
And for you.....

BIG SMACKY KISSES!
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[info]miz_kitty wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:47 pm (UTC)
The problem is Z, no matter how flacid his dick is, it's still bigger than yours.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:49 pm (UTC)
Riiight, but I have a CLITORIS. And as the lady says, "who needs a handgun when you've got a semi-automatic?"

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(no subject) - [info]miz_kitty - Jan. 12th, 2005 04:52 pm (UTC) Expand
(no subject) - [info]zorah - Jan. 12th, 2005 05:10 pm (UTC) Expand
(no subject) - [info]vampwillow - Jan. 12th, 2005 10:15 pm (UTC) Expand
[info]stephzilla wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:53 pm (UTC)
I have no way to pay you, but I will certainly link this in the woman's-rights communities that I'm in.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:59 pm (UTC)
Then every penny I get from them is because of you!

Whooo!
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[info]viggie wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:55 pm (UTC)
i'm broker than broke but i passed the word around.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:11 pm (UTC)
I saw that! Mad love, mama!

I love how the mamas always arrive fast. Like the cavalry.
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[info]mostlyhere wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:57 pm (UTC)
I wish I had some $. I posted everywhere I could think of, and I hope it helps.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:11 pm (UTC)
It helps! MWAH!

Tell your gf to give you a big smacky kiss from me!
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[info]sofvckinghot wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 04:58 pm (UTC)
I put a link to this post in my LJ. I will give when I get paid on Friday. ((HUG)) Thank you for doing this.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:13 pm (UTC)
Thank-you, thank-you!

Stuff like that makes it easier to go to skool today and plop my ass down in the Dean's office and register my (useless but eloquent) complaint.

I will still win!
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[info]caffeine_fairy wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:02 pm (UTC)
Could you sell something else and offer a free ticket to VM with it...?
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:14 pm (UTC)
OOOOOOOH

good idea!

bake sale?
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subversive kitties & nibbly lips - [info]allthecolors - Jan. 12th, 2005 10:01 pm (UTC) Expand
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[info]maclyn wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:03 pm (UTC)
I bought you a ticket because this got me so damn mad.

Good luck!
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:14 pm (UTC)
I am dancing this song from The Gits, just for you!

MWAH!
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[info]disco_trash wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:06 pm (UTC)
I saw a link to your story in some commmunity, and even though I currently am unable to use pay pal (I don't even have a bank account) I linked you in my journal and on my personal website (www.deadairroom.com) so hopefully it will help. I think what you're doing is awesome and I hope you get to give away a ton of tickets.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:15 pm (UTC)
It will help, and you will be personally responsible for every penny that is donated from those links - you rule!
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[info]forwrathandruin wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:09 pm (UTC)
You don't know me, but I was linked to this post via the antirape community. I don't really have much in the way of communities to crosspost you in, but I'll link from my personal journal. (This may or may not explain the hits/donations that you may or may not get from people you don't know.)

Just thought I'd leave a heads up. Don't let them keep you down!
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:18 pm (UTC)
Thank you SO much! Every link in the web creates a whole new web. It all helps.
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[info]heavenscalyx wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:12 pm (UTC)
Akycha and I hope that a small group of law students enjoy the show very much, on us.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:19 pm (UTC)
Oh, I wish I could just hug you and make you tea. This is SO fabulous. Feminists rule.
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(no subject) - [info]heavenscalyx - Jan. 12th, 2005 05:28 pm (UTC) Expand
[info]ginless_tonic wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:14 pm (UTC)
i went to a mennonite school for two years...i feel your pain. i'll be crossposting like crazy, and donating ASAP. rock on!

all my feminist love.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:20 pm (UTC)
Feminist love back atcha - thanks so much! I will be getting all verklempt all day long, I can tell.
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[info]unkai wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:16 pm (UTC)
Hey...stranger wandering in. I followed the link to your LJ from [info]vaginapagina, and well, I don't have paypal but I'm linking in my LJ as well and encouraging my friends to do so, too. I hope you get that show sold out!
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:21 pm (UTC)
Welcome, stranger!

The linkage is a beautiful thing, it is what will make this action truly work. ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou!
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(no subject) - [info]ladyortyger - Jan. 13th, 2005 12:47 am (UTC) Expand
[info]jessy1019 wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:24 pm (UTC)
Amazingly enough I have $9.53 in my paypal. Going to send you $8 now. Yay, the rest of my bank accounts are too poor to help anyone, but at least paypal isn't. Wasn't. :-)
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:34 pm (UTC)
Oh, wow!

Thank you SO much!

Mad, karma points and feminist love coming to you for the rest of the day!
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[info]shullie wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:25 pm (UTC)
Will pass it on....

good luck
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:35 pm (UTC)
Woot! Thank you!

Love!
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[info]riot_tori wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:31 pm (UTC)
power to ya sister...
stay strong, and keep on fighting the endless fight... and know that I will be crying in rage along with you.

xo
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:36 pm (UTC)
Re: power to ya sister...
What would we do without the other voices in the ether telling us we are not alone? Thanks so much for the love. It gets me through days like this.
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[info]sunnydecho wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:46 pm (UTC)
hi. I think I donated $16 dollars to your paypal, instead of just $8. No sweat off my back. If I did, that's two free tickets, so rock on.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 06:02 pm (UTC)
ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou

All hail feminists and the power of PayPal!
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[info]giltedge wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:46 pm (UTC)
How long are you doing this for? I would like to donate a ticket, but can't until after this weekend. I will pass this along.
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 06:04 pm (UTC)
Allllll the way till the performance dates - February 11 & 12.

Pass it along, do!

Thank you so much!!!
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[info]miz_kitty wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 05:52 pm (UTC)
Well, you could use mine as a model...but there's gotta be a better way.

I made chocolates once. I can do it again.

http://www.streichs.com/cgi-bin/streichs/XX524.html?id=G4HIqC9S

http://www.tcbsupply.com/ordermolds2.htm

http://www.moldingmagic.com/adult9.html
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[info]dolmadez wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 06:05 pm (UTC)
what school is this? If it's in Florida, gimmie directions and I'LL start some shit. Don't worry, I won't mention your name. I'll just be some crazy girl who wandered on campus and started shouting about pro-choice rights and handing out buttons and flyers and stuff.

I do not have a paypal account, but I leave you much love and I am going to post this in my personal journal. I wish you MUCH MUCH luck.

...man, this is bullshit. It pisses ME off!!!
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 06:19 pm (UTC)
Sadly, it is in Washington State....I could use that fabulous energy!

Pass on the link, and stay tuned....I may have a PO box addy by the end of today if you wanna send it snail mail.
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[info]plymouth wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 06:10 pm (UTC)
Got here via [info]knit4choice. Will gladly donate to the cause, but would like to know what school you go to so that I know where my money is going. Don't get me wrong - I think this is an important issue EVERYWHERE, but I would like to know. Thanks!
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[info]zorah wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2005 06:17 pm (UTC)
80% of the money goes to Stop The Clock, a non-profit in Spokane, Washington. Stop the Clock is an advocacy group for women who have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault. 10% goes to Women's Hearth, a non profit community center for homeless women and women transitioning from homelessness. 10% goes to CounterCrisis Northwest, which provides funding for abortions and reproductive services for women who have experienced rape or domestic violence.

NONE of the money goes to the school. NO profit goes to anyone but these three organizations.

I attend Gonzaga Law School.

Thank you so much for your support and response! Knitters, I SWEAR, are the most radical people I know.

(goes to join knitters for choice right now)

Whoot!
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