Things We Saw Today: Irish Citizens Are Flying Back Home For the Referendum #RepealThe8th

Irish citizens from around the world are returning home in order to vote in Friday’s upcoming election. The Friday vote will be on whether to repeal the Eighth Amendment Irish constitution, which makes abortion illegal under almost all circumstances. As evidenced in the picture above, when I visited Ireland last month it was clear that the issue is very split and the anti-choice side has been pumping out propaganda in order to keep the abortion laws in place. It’s a really powerful reminder of how times are evolving and what people can change when they come together.

I’m coming #HomeToVote ! Will be traveling 5,169 miles from LA to Dublin and will be thinking of every Irish woman who has had to travel to access healthcare that should be available in their own country. Let’s do this, Ireland! #repealthe8th #VoteYes pic.twitter.com/fZDxUIGrs9

— Lauryn Canny (@LaurynCanny) May 23, 2018

#hometovote from Queensland to Dublin. Arrived in today and worth it. Drinking Lyons tea at 5am with jetlag. #repealthe8th #togetherforyes #hometovote #trustwomen #8thref pic.twitter.com/oWEzpfIkWk

— Siobhan Gilroy (@shiv_gilroy) May 23, 2018

Too brief of a honeymoon, but I’m #HomeToVote and hopefully #hometorepeal

Ready for the Ireland I deserve, you deserve, everyone who has ever faced the same journey as me alone deserves. We are not criminals, we need this, we WILL repeal this. pic.twitter.com/yRViMlZVTV

— Kate (@Bed_Forever_) May 23, 2018

You got this Ireland. #Repealthe8th

(via Buzzfeed)

• • • Michelle Obama is releasing her own autobiography called “Becoming” and I’m already crying. We miss you, Michelle!!!
      

      I’m thrilled to share with all of you the cover for BECOMING. The process of writing this book has been so personally meaningful and illuminating for me. As I prepare to share BECOMING this fall, I hope you’ll also think about your own story, and trust that it will help you become whoever you aspire to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own. #BECOMING

      A post shared by Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) on May 24, 2018 at 6:33am PDT

       

    • Sarah Silverman thinks that comedians like Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari should continue to work, despite their behavior. Important to remember these men have not been out of work that long. (via Jezebel)
    • Someone who has been out of work, because of what she lost due to C.K’s actions, comedian Rebecca Corry who wrote a fantastic statement for Vulture talking about her experiences post coming out about C.K’s harassment. (via Vulture)
    • Ronan Farrow delivers a very powerful response to his brother Moses’ post yesterday which tried to discredit Dylan Farrow’s accusations about Woody Allen.  (via Ronan’s twitter)
    • Did you cry enough today? No. Don’t worry we got you.

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