The Supreme Court will consider whether therapists’ free speech rights outweigh a law that bans therapy that seeks to change sexual identity. Almost 30 states have such bans.

micro fiction

The day after the election,I shared this statement in a meme,white type on a background black as night.Not my creation——a sentiment shared by thousands,the truth revealed as everyone knows a woman who’s been a victim,but nobody knows a man held to account.Female friends posted the meme in solidarity, a sisterhood of the digital age.

Think of how many consider it sin to sing.Think of Robert Johnson, of Elvis’ hips,the Beatles’ mop tops, Mick Jagger’s bulging lips,Tina Turner, who gave sparkle to everything.Little wonder, then, that the Puritan stinghas crept into the circuits of computer chips.Let the people own their rhythms, and authority slipsfrom shining hilltop to hell——how thin the string…

the red headed leader blossoms into poison ivy — Michael H. Brownstein

45 = 47 — Tracy Royce