Have you personally protected women seeking to end a pregnancy from the howling cruelty of anti-social forced birthers? Have you won a big victory for your cause with panty provocation and astonishing suffering at the hands of an abusive government? Do you have the stones to take on the Florida/Lakeland nepotism juggernaut that is the Canady family because Jennifer and Charles are about to bring down carnage on women across Polk County and Florida through 6-week forced birth after Jennifer openly lied about it?
If you answered no to any of those questions, you are not Bonnie Patterson-James.
In this episode, Bonnie and I have a long discussion about — among many other things — how much metaphorical space she takes up. She describes herself as “big,” an outsized, emotionally transparent (sometimes ragged) presence. It’s the presence of an activist. Will it translate to a political campaign in which conventional political forces and aesthetics are against her? Come listen and decide for yourself.
I’d particularly recommend listening to BPJ’s account of her arrest and incarceration and prosecution in the aftermath of FlyingBouncyPantyGate, which you can read about in the two links below. Our discussion of that starts at roughly the 30-minute mark.
As I note in the podcast, Jennifer Canady, Grady Judd, and anyone involved in FlyingBouncyPantyGate have a standing invite to come chat with me here about it — and other things.
Anytime a Canady or Judd want to chat with me, we’ll have a good talk. I’ll treat them fairly and honestly.
PE1 podcast #3: Bonnie Patterson-James talks forced birth, Rep. Jennifer Canady, and suffering for agitation and a cause