Away with euphemisms!
Bastard Nation got a shout out today from Politics Daily Woman Up! blogger and poet Donna Trusell. Writing in The Difference between Skanks and an Escort (Thanks, Tiger!) Trusell says:
There was a time when an advocacy group called Bastard Nation would have been unthinkable. No, instead you’d see an unwieldy, alphabet-soup name like Adopted Children Together for Open Court Records (ACTOCR, with ochre wrist bands, perhaps).
Bastard Nation is a name for our times. Be bastard! Be bitch! Be proud! After all, half the world is an accident.
It’s nice when somebody gets language.
Now, let’s get some ochre wristbands!
Thanks, Donna!
Where do I get my wristband?!? Waiting impatiently for reply……………………………………………………………………..Carla
Ya…”Bastard Rights Are Human Rights”…
Proceeds could go to fund anti-industry commercials.
Yeah I’m kind reaching the no more Ms. Nice Guy conclusion too.
Which ochre did you have in mind?
I’ve often wondered if we natural mothers should have a group called Sluts Unbound. Whaddya think?
Many years ago when trying to come up with a name for our local Jersey group, we considered “M.O.B.”, Mothers of Bastards! But we settled for Origins, and now everybody has that name. This was in 1980 so we had it first. I think the Aussies came up with the same name independently, then it spread like chicken pox:-) We shoulda stuck with MOB, a fine Jersey tradition!