There WAS a sit-in in a different bathroom in the Capitol on the literal same day, two of them happening simultaneously actually, one of men (mostly trans men) outside the women’s bathroom and one of trans women inside the bathroom.
We can do multiple things, y'know? One of which isn’t trying to “shoot up” one of the most secure places on the planet. Also you’re hiding shit in the tags, you’re significantly more of a coward than any of the people in this video.
How is this protest any less valid than an “actual” sit-in? Because there is joy? Because there is dancing? Because the oppressed are expressing anything but dour resignation?
Invention of a Feminist Sound Bite
by Alix Kates Shulman
December 24, 2001
“IF I CAN’T DANCE I DON’T want to be in your revolution,” said Emma Goldman.
Or did she? Perhaps she said, “If 1 can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution,” as my purple T-shirt claims under a picture of Emma looking demure in a widebrimmed hat. Or was it rather, “If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution,” as the quote appears in a 1983 Passover Haggadah?
In fact, though the sentiment is indeed Emma Goldman’s, she wrote none of the above, notwithstanding that each of these versions and more have been attributed to her on buttons, posters, banners, T-shirts, bumper stickers, and in books and articles, for nearly twenty years. Here, rather, is what she did say, in her 1931 autobiography Living My Life:
To quote Emma Goldman in her 1931 autobiography:
“At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance… My frivolity would only hurl the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, .should demand the denial of life and joy… If it meant that, I did not want it.”
