In the age of news defunding and deregulation, Rainbow and Alexander noticed there were topics that local news outlets were not covering. Whether this be for fear, lack of interest on the news team’s part, or some other third thing, the news demands to be reported.

The name comes from a misquote from anarcho-feminist Emma Goldman’s autobiography, Living My Life (pub. 1931). This is the actual segment of text:

At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. Certainly not with such reckless abandon, anyway. It was undignified for one who was on the way to become a force in the anarchist movement. My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business. I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.

Too often, in our time working in the nonprofit sector, we’ve seen “the Cause” used as an excuse for burnout, exploitation, and cruelty. But we refuse to accept that fighting for civil rights means sacrificing our humanity. We believe that resistance must leave space for celebration, that activism should uplift rather than deplete, and that true liberation includes the freedom to live, love, and dance.