Uncategorized Archives - Gabi Clayton

My Public Comment Regarding President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Which Has Released a Draft Report Claiming to Defend Religious Liberty

July 6, 2026 by Gabi Clayton

I recieved this email from Interfaith Alliance this morning: Take Action: Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission Takes Aim at Church-State Separation Dear Gabi, President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a draft report that claims to protect religious liberty. It does the opposite. The Commission’s report promotes one narrow version of faith, ignores the harm done by …

House of Un-American Activities and RESIST by Gabi Clayton, 06-01-2025

June 2, 2025June 2, 2025 by Gabi Clayton

I first created “House of Un-American Activities on 02-06-2017” (see below) – less than three weeks into the first presidential term of Donald Trump. I updated it yesterday, June 1, 2025, for the ‘No Kings’ protest on June 14, 2025 and beyond. It is now on my Redbubble shop on t-shirts, coffee cups, and more …

Twenty-five years, and my Mount Saint Helens Letter

July 28, 2023May 12, 2020 by Gabi Clayton

May 8, 2020 was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day our son Bill committed suicide after and in response to being assaulted in a bashing based on his sexual orientation. I knew it was coming but when I woke up that morning it hadn’t struck me yet when our son Noel sent me a text …

Our Upcoming Art Sale, and “My wife, Gabi Clayton, makes art.”

July 28, 2023February 15, 2020 by Gabi Clayton

My husband, Alec Clayton, wrote this on February 12, 2020, and it makes me very happy and proud to know he feels this way about my art: My wife, Gabi Clayton, makes art. For all the thirty some odd years that I was painting and exhibiting my paintings in galleries, hardly anybody even knew she was …

Old Multiples Gallery

July 28, 2023September 7, 2019 by Gabi Clayton

Other People’s Words (mostly)

July 28, 2023August 3, 2019 by Gabi Clayton

I’ve got a huge collection of quotes. Use the menu above to see them or start here: Quotes. Over time I’ll add more I’ve collected, and I will continue to do that as I find interesting stuff. I hope you enjoy them.

reclaiming my voice

July 28, 2023July 4, 2019 by Gabi Clayton

My last blog post was in 2013. Yow! Partly that’s because I’ve been busy posting on Facebook and elsewhere, partly it is I have been quite busy, and partly it is that I just plain forgot that I had a blog. Oops. I’m redesigning my website (finally) which will among other things be a showplace …

My testimony today at the hearing regarding House Bill 1163 at the Washington State Senate Committee on Early Learning and K12 Education

July 28, 2023March 18, 2011 by Gabi Clayton

This is what I said in my 2 minute (approximately) testimony today at the hearing regarding House Bill 1163 at the Washington State Senate Committee on Early Learning and K12 Education: My name is Gabi Clayton, and I live here in Olympia. Our son Bill was assaulted on the grounds of Olympia High School during …

Jay Smooth: No Accounting for Taste

July 28, 2023October 18, 2009 by Gabi Clayton

Here is another brilliant video blog post by Jay! In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a fan. 🙂 ill Doctrine is a hip-hop video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, creator of the hip hop music blog and founder of New York’s longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI’s Underground Railroad.

Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

July 28, 2023October 18, 2009 by Gabi Clayton

Positive thinking is different, she says, from being cheerful or good-natured — it’s believing that the world is shaped by our wants and desires and that by focusing on the good, the bad ceases to exist. Read: Barbara Ehrenreich: The Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America | | AlterNet By Emily Wilson, AlterNet. …