Mom Rage

Karen Fleshman
6 min readSep 23, 2021
Author yelling at the Senate Judiciary Committee, Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing Sept. 4, 2018

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died a year ago. Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court allowed Texas to ban abortions six weeks after conception and to deputize Texas citizens to terrorize pregnant people seeking health care.

While women of color, immigrant women and women living in poverty are the most vulnerable, no woman or girl in the United States can be free and safe while women in Texas are at the whim of incels, abusers, rapists, Karens with the state sanctioned power to pick up the phone and earn a $10,000 bounty.

My state, California, is on fire, in a massive drought. Firefighters are wrapping Sequoias, the oldest, largest trees on earth, in aluminum to protect them from the flames.

Three years ago, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford told the American people of Brett Kavanaugh and his friend assaulting her.

Ford: “Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter. The uproarious laughter between the two. They’re having fun at my expense.”

Senator Leahy: “You’ve never forgotten them…

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Karen Fleshman

Founder, Racy Conversations Inspiring the antiracist generation.