Busy, busy and more busy

Some of you may have been wondering why I have not updated suzannemacnevin.com recently.

Well the truth is I am busy working my cute little *** off to make ends meet.

I call it the bane of all activists, artists and do-gooders. You still have to make a living regardless of your political, social or even artistic goals. I am not a starving writer by any means, but I certainly do feel like one sometimes.

This means little time to write, to organize, to paint, or whatever it is you do.

Being busy all the time is also emotionally frustrating. You want to be doing other things, but you are so busy from working that when you come home you just want to sit around eating ice cream and watching old Seinfeld episodes.

Why? Because laughter requires almost no brain power.

And when you are emotionally and creatively spent, working on artwork, writing or social activism ends up taking a backseat to the simple need of going to work, coming home and just chilling before you fall asleep and have to do it all over again.

For me this feels like patriarchy is winning. As if all the rapists, anti-feminists, deadbeat daddies, femicide murderers and other pricks in the world are getting away with whatever they are doing simply because I am too busy to talk about them and raise awareness.

As if the entire weight of the world rests on my tiny shoulders.

But then I realize that there is many more like me. You, my loyal readers, other feminist writers / activists who are fighting the good fight - fighting for freedom for all women. There are millions of feminist websites out there all pushing for equal rights for women and men.

And so I apologize that this is one of very few posts in 2014 so far. But I am still here. Still thinking the good fight even though I am not always able (time wise) to write about it.

And when I find more time I will be back to write more, spreading truth, justice and the feminist way!