THE THEMIS PARTY

As an introduction I thought I'd explain a few things about myself and about something my friends and I created called The Themis Party. 
So, hi, I'm Cathy. I'm a 18 year old college student, feminist, fangirl, and many other things that I can't think of at the moment. My friend Sabrina suggested that I start this blog but I'm not really sure what to put on here yet. I'm going to try to not make my blog look like a recreation of my tumblr, but it's going to be a hard challenge. Hopefully who ever is reading this will stick around!
Okay, so The Themis Party (yes always bolded and capitalized fool!) was created during my senior year of high school in my Government class. We were assigned to partner up and create a political party. Sabrina and I (her name is gonna be on here a lot) came up with The Themis Party. Since it was named after the Roman goddess of justice, any conversation related to feminism was met with a war cry of "THE THEMIS PARTY HUZZAH!" after. I like to think that Lady Justice (the Greek equivalent of Themis) is holding the scales for gender equality, and the sword because y'all shouldn't fuck with feminists.

A lot of events have happened in the news recently and my life personally that have caused my love for The Themis Party to resurface. One of those being the whole ordeal with Texas Senator Wendy Davis. I honestly had no idea about the bill until I went online. I read a post about what was happening, clicked the link and was sent to a live video of the meeting. I saw the BAMF of a woman, Senator Leticia Van de Putte say, "At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues in this room?" and cheered with the other citizens in the capital. I cheered on Kirk Watson to keep talking, and repeating "I have seen many shades of grey tonight" to take up more time cause Senator Davis only had twenty minutes left! And when my Californian clock struck ten, and the Texan clock struck midnight, I threw my hands up in the air and yelled for my sister to come and watch. And despite the really fucked up shit that happened after, I'm glad I got to watch a historical moment take place. Those pink running shoes are going to be remembered. I even stayed up to make a collage in my sketchbook filled with pictures from that night, and a lot of text posts from Tumblr or comments from the Youtube live feed,  cause the power of Themis had inspired me. 

(Some awesome highlights from this collage: I shouldn't have to be cheering for Women's Rights. I should just have them. //"Patriarchy is when you can break the law in front of a room full of protesting women and THEY'RE the ones who get arrested"-Hugo Schwyzer //I've got a burning like my veins are filled with white hot feminist rage!)

Before this collage, I had been making little zines with Sabrina that we appropriately titles The Themizine. I mostly filled it with silly feminist things, but Sabrina put music she was listening to, actresses she admired, poems she enjoyed, etc. etc. I really enjoyed making them, and I plan on doing a ton more this summer.

The Themizine Vol. 1

Another Themis

 I felt like a total Riot Grrl this past week, listening to edgy-fuck-you-ish music, making zines, being actively involved in feminist issues. If you want to make a zine for yourself, we found this link that teaches you to make mini-zines out of plain blank paper, some folding skills, and a pair of scissors. They're super fun, easy to make, and you can do whatever you want with them. The fun part is being able to share them with your friends by copying the unfolded zine like the picture on your left here and folding up the copies for whom ever you want. Spread the word and add more members to The Themis Party! (Also side note: I really want the Ovarian Gang Sign to take off more than it has. Look at how awesome that bottom left picture is!) You can see The Themizine in more detail on Sabrina's blog which I keep linking to but no biggie its fine.

Another amazing event has happened in recent news! Prop 8 and DOMA are no more! Sadly, I don't know as much about this subject as I should, but I wanted to create a giant list of songs to party to for everyone that has benefitted from the filibuster and the good riddance of Prop 8. Most of these songs are already on a playlist I made called The Themis Party haha! But I made that quite a while ago, and I've found a bunch of other amazing songs: 

1.Bad Reputation-Joan Jett

2.None of Your Business-Salt N' Pepa

3.Been A Son-Nirvana

4.Run The World (Girls)-Beyonce

5.Map of Tasmania-Amanda Palmer

6.U.N.I.T.Y.-Queen Latifah

7.Boys Wanna Be Her-Peaches

8.Diva-Beyonce

9.Boys For Breakfast-Natalie Storm

10.All Men Are Pigs-Studio Killers

11.Can't Hold Us Down-Christina Aguilera ft. Lil Kim

12.Grown Woman-Beyonce

13.Pull Up The People-M.I.A.

14.Q.U.E.E.N.-Janelle Monae ft. Erykah Badu

15.I'm A Lady-Santogold

16.Revolution-Nina Simone

17.Warrior-Yeah Yeah Yeahs

18.Heavy Cross-Gossip

19.Independent Woman-Destinys Child

20.Bad Girls-M.I.A.

21.Survivor-Destinys Child

22.Just A Girl-No Doubt

23.Rebel Girl-Bikini Kill

24.Suggestion-Fugazi

25.Army Of Me-Bjork

26.Keep Ya Head Up-Tupac

27.Same Love-Macklemore

28.Born This Way-Lady Gaga

29.She Wolf-Shakira

30.Search And Destroy-Skunk Anansie