#emilydavison — Public Fediverse posts

@CarveHerName

i am grateful to her, but the story always brings to mind a conversation with my mother when i was still a school…

picture it, sicily, 1943 — no scratch that, flemington, (naarm, australia) 1963
a little 17 inch B & W 📺 crappy picture frequently interrupted by horizontal lines, and other distortions. robert menzies on the tv, but not droning on and on cos the volume is turned right down

me: why doncha turnidup?
mollie: i know wodde’s sayin’ an i don wonna hearit
me: why don’t we watch another station?
mollie: he’s on orlovem
me: well wot’se sayin?
mollie: he just goes on an’on about communists orl the bluddy time
me: they sed at school you should vote dlp to fight communists
mollie: well i always vote communist
me: why?!
mollie: well, they’re not orl bad, but mostly i vote for ‘em cos bugger the church, and also cos the communists never win
me: well, why vote at all?
mollie: it’s the law, but also i can’t waste my vote cos #EmilyDavison threw herself under a horse and died so i can vote
me: who what?!…