Before you buy a blue bracelet

(0:02) Before you go out and buy a blue bracelet or several several blue bracelets, I want you to (0:09) remember something. If you like blue bracelets, by all means, wear a blue one. But if you're (0:18) using it as a gimmick to show people that you are a safe person, I encourage you to think a little (0:26) harder for a couple of reasons.

Women have always been prey. That's not new news. That didn't change (0:36) with this election.
We have always had the ability to look at each other and communicate (0:48) with our eyes. Are you okay? Yes or no. Women have always had the ability to go into a bathroom and (1:00) trade clothes with a perfect stranger because that's just what we do. We have the ability to (1:08) not even know somebody's first name before we jump in and help them with something else. (1:16) But because we are prey in this society, we also have other skills.

We have the ability (1:23) to go to the farmer's market and see who at the farmer's market is an ally, (1:33) is someone we can trust. You can pretty much pick out who's the local witch, right? (1:41) Not because you went and checked their wrist to see if they were wearing a bracelet. (1:48) You can tell who is a girl's girl and who is really just there to get the key to put you or (1:57) someone else down. We know these things because we live with this every single day in our society.(2:06) And it's not because we go and check each other's wrists that we know the energy of another person. (2:15) 

We don't go check somebody's wrist before we go, okay, I need to not be by myself right now. (2:23) I'm looking around. I need an ally. I'm choosing her.

If you are so concerned that people are going (2:34) to look at you and say, oh my God, what if she's a shitty person? I encourage you to instead (2:43) do two things. Number one, work on yourself. What is it about you that makes you think that that's (2:55) the energy you give off? Work on you.

Whether it's just working on your self-esteem or whether (3:02) it's working on something bigger. And number two, if you really want to make a difference, (3:09) get your hands dirty. Pick a non-profit that is doing work that you believe in (3:19) and see how you can help.

​Learn. Be part of a solution. (3:33) Good news, you do not need a blue bracelet for either of those things either.