On my birthday, I’m remembering every child spending theirs in an immigration prison. They deserve cake, family, freedom, & someone who calls at midnight, like my mother. https://ginnybrowndaniel.substack.com/p/a-birthday-to-remember?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I saw this cactus on my vacation and thought of the thorny times in which we live. What do you see? https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/in-thorny-times?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

For 8 weeks, I wrote about ordinary women who held their communities together through crisis. What ordinary act will you do? #MoralFeministWitness https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/moral-feminist-witness?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Before social media, my mother connected our family thru her calendars. This week's reflection is about birthdays & the loving rituals that hold us together.https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/the-glue-to-family-calendars?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What kind of ally will you be? Laura Smith Haviland shows us that allyship is dangerous, costly, and worth it for freedom to be realized! https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/what-kind-of-ally-will-you-be?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A little visual inspiration for your TX Feminist Sunday. 🌹What draws your eye, what do the colors awaken, and where do you find yourself in this image? https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/entering-the-bloom?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

In 1918, women filled the public health gap & saved lives. Today, they are still doing it. Will we honor their work by rebuilding the systems meant to support them? https://ginnybrowndaniel.substack.com/publish/post/207200030?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Me están matando. What does covenant require when the empire kills our neighbor? My reflections on loving my Houston neighbor, Mr. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/me-estan-matando?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Grandmas know when silence has become complicity. Moral Feminist Witness honors the Grandmas for the American Indian Movement as we process more ICE violence. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/when-the-grandmas-speak-up?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Reflections on my surprising Independence Day communion filled with bubble-making toys, food, and patience as we make our way home to Beloved Community together! https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/yesterday-i-worshipped?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What if our July 4th celebrations embodied the celebration-as-resistance like our Japanese American foremothers? https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/who-gets-to-celebrate?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Pride is radical hospitality: celebration, truth-telling, and justice in action. This is our work after Pride month ends. Let’s get to it. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/radical-hospitality?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

As we honor Stonewall Rising, let us learn from the women & faith communities who cared for those dying from AIDS in the 80s & 90s to honor Trans folx now. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/love-as-an-act-of-defiance?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

From childhood adventures to park bench conversations. Grateful for the love that keeps walking with us. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/walking-together?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

When public systems failed Black children, Eula Gray Allison & her community built the schools themselves. What are we building now for our children? https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/they-built-the-schools-themselves?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I am because we are. Our becoming together is both resistance and hope. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/i-am-because-we-are?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Penelope Barker boycotted British tea. Esther Reed funded our army. Women have always known that economic power is freedom & we're still proving it! https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/the-women-who-funded-a-revolution?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

One unnamed woman. Twelve years. A story we still need. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/she-reached-anyway?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

As America nears 250 years, I'm telling the stories of women who held communities together through crisis. We are not alone in this. We never were. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/women-who-built-community-through?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The wildflowers didn't wait for pesky weeds to disappear. They simply bloomed - just like us in this moment. A TX Feminist Sunday reflection: Blossoming Fullness 🌻 https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/blossoming-fullness?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Musing on what some Texans chose to prioritize for midterms. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/biblical-grounds?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

A TX Feminist Sunday reflection on sidewalk memorials, Rizpah, and the names we keep. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/keepers-of-the-watch?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

As a child of Watergate, I offer thoughts for the children (& adults) of this Gilded Age 2.0 era. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/seeking-moral-clarity-in-this-gilded?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Holding grief and hope at the same time, we keep walking together along the winding path ahead. 🌿 May this image nourish your soul for our journey. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/along-the-way?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Voting rights in southern states are rapidly being removed-it's as if they had their plan in a drawer waiting for this SCOTUS gutting of the Voting Rights Act. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/she-showed-up-so-must-we?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

We Shall Not be Moved! Spiritual nourishment for our Voting Rights Movement. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/we-shall-not-be-moved-cbe?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

While many of us are still processing the SCOTUS ruling, organizers are already mobilizing. We must become part of today's Voting Rights movement. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/todays-voting-rights-movement-is?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Shared waters. We will meet along the path. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/shared-waters?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

SCOTUS just made voter suppression harder to prove & easier to defend. Grieve. Then organize, fight, & demand voting rights for BIPOC citizens! https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/the-test-was-never-the-test?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

We are living through a time that tests the moral fabric of our common life. Inside Our Resilience. A TX Feminist Sunday reflection. https://open.substack.com/pub/ginnybrowndaniel/p/inside-our-resilience?r=1z6eof&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true