Nan Patience on strike: top 10 reasons why

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Hey You, it’s Nan Patience!

A Women’s Strike has been called for June 24th. Tell the others!

Here are my top 10 reasons why I’ll be striking on June 24th, counting down from #10 to #1 on the 4seasonshelf YouTube channel:

Reason #10 : to send a message

Yes, yes, to send a message for sure, but in a mad yet fun way! So clear your calendar and drop everything on June 24th.

Reason #9 : all of our work should count

Women are priceless, yes, and no you can’t put a price on love, but you can put a price on labor in the marketplace. Fun fact: did you know that unpaid women’s work adds over $200,000/year in uncounted value per household? That’s not just women’s math, that’s actual math.

If women didn’t contribute this much unpaid labor, jacking up the economy every day, falsely inflating the official numbers by leaving out the foundation of most families, then what? “Women’s work” is important labor and needs to get more R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

Reason #8 : fairness

Women do more than our fair share of emotional labor, caretaking, preserving family legacies, coordination, celebrations, events, upkeep, planning, holding everything, homemaking, and household labor. At one point, it’s ridiculous. Each of us — men, women and children — need to pull our weight in this area.

Reason #7 : women’s health

Women’s health needs attention. Much of medical science and research is based on men’s bodies. Too little is known about why women are more susceptible to autoimmune diseases, cancers, and dementia. In many ways, women are getting poorer quality care than men. Women’s bodies are not well understood to this day in ways that they should be, putting strange ideas into people’s heads. I mean, menopause is an enigma wrapped in a mystery.

Women are in danger due to mass confusion and massive government overreach regarding abortion and contraception, among other gender issues.

Reason #6 : financial insecurity

Motherhood is penalized when it comes to retirement benefits. You’d think mothers didn’t work at all. There may be decades of supposedly being out of the labor force. Solution: credit parenthood generously in Social Security benefits. It’s fair, and it would help families. Start Medicare at 55 for everyone.

Reason #5 : childcare crisis

Quality childcare is unaffordable even if we can find it, putting children in danger and behind academically. Children like to be with other children from a very early age, and they like to play and grow together under the guidance and care of qualified, experienced teachers, nutritionists, and administrators. Children with early education have better outcomes in life.

Reason #4 : school & work schedule craziness

For five days/week, schools let kids out at 3 o’clock and employers let workers out at 5. Not to mention kids get summers off, they get sick sometimes, there are many, many other days and weeks off, and this is all very stressful. Let’s make up our minds.

Reason #3 : unequal pay

Women are still paid less than men in the workforce.

Reason #2 : fear of violence

Violence against women, guns and mass shootings.

Reason #1 : on June 24, 2022 the Supreme Court handed women over to the barbarians and said, do whatever the heck you want.

June 24th is the day the Supreme Court created a second class of citizens for women in America with no sovereignty over our own bodies.

So… I’ll see you out there on June 24th!

~ Nan

* Note: my strike is for women’s solidarity. I’m lucky the men in my life are great, so this is in no way a comment on any of them. Heck, I even dedicated my book of love poems to my husband. Love you!

Stay complicated!

Download Love Poem: “Thoughts Upside Down” by NY Poet NG Swett

People really like this short rhyming poem from Hold Me Tight, my book of love poems

“Thoughts Upside Down” from HOLD ME TIGHT poetry book by New York poet NG Swett. On 4x6 adhesive shipping label printed on a thermal printer.

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Here is a short video I made of the same poem:

Thermal poetry?

I printed the poem above on a thermal printer and I’ll tell you why.

Printing a poem on an adhesive thermal label is an idea I got by two accidents.

One accident was in the original printing of the paperback poetry book. A poem accidentally sucked. So I made a label with a better poem and covered my shame. (And updated and uploaded my files to Ingram Spark and Draft2Digital for the revised hard cover and ebook editions.)

The other accident was printing out a dozen of the same shipping label for an eBay sale. A waste of precious labels, for sure! But printing a dozen poems on purpose and then sticking them up around town might be fun.

When I’ve got some thermal poems in my bag, I keep my eye open for a good spot. What’s a good spot? Visible, public, out of the elements a bit, smooth surface, and possibly used by other sticker people…

Can you see my thermal poem?

In selling online, I’ve become aware of a huge number of creative, entrepreneurial and community-minded people doing ecommerce, and many of us have thermal printers because of the time, money and paper they save in shipping. The cost of ink these days, am I right?!