Came across this elsewhere, and it seems a good reminder of how the Civil Rights fight was won.
Successfully fighting for civil rights requires multiple parallel strategies, *and those "lanes" can't overlap*. Someone who's protecting people, for instance, needs to be squeaky clean, legally--
Successfully fighting for civil rights requires multiple parallel strategies, *and those "lanes" can't overlap*. Someone who's protecting people, for instance, needs to be squeaky clean, legally--
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When someone who's striving for the same things you're striving for, but doing so in a way that doesn't seem to make sense to you--
My lane is Protecting People. I work to empower, educate, and protect trans folks from the dangers we all face, which is why I've historically tried to--
It's not that I don't see the political realities. I do. It's not that I don't believe in our ends, or that I don't believe in the power of protest. I EXTREMELY do.
The folks inside those civic institutions, who are resisting oppressive laws and fighting to expand our freedoms, need external justifications to represent themselves--
These are just a couple of examples, by the way. There's lots more that people in each lane need and can benefit from in the other 3.
None of us wins alone.
Identify your lane. Identify what you need people in other lanes to do to bolster you, and how your acts can bolster them.