Zooey Zephyr is like single-handedly demonstrating what a leader looks like right now and it’s basically just “standing up and making noise too powerfully to be ignored”
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Rep Zephyr’s speech flips 13 GOPs, trans bills die in Montana
Trans people have been scapegoated so effectively (among older people) that we're flooded with models of how to hate.
But when people hear the love behind why we stand up for each other, we win.
Bravo, @zoandbehold.bsky.social!
Trans people have been scapegoated so effectively (among older people) that we're flooded with models of how to hate.
But when people hear the love behind why we stand up for each other, we win.
Bravo, @zoandbehold.bsky.social!
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This is a powerful level of righteous advocacy which hasn’t been wielded as effectively in recent memory. She’s a national treasure and deserves alllllll the credit.
that is how you change the world in her position; with passion.
*political career is immediately destroyed when they find my bsky account*
*replaces pacifier to think more clearly*
Zooey is following that tradition of daring to ask her oppressors to recognize their common humanity, mustering the strength to be vulnerable.
I wrote off every missed opportunity to strike, the fights conceded before the bell even rings. I wanted her to be it.
She just isn’t. Either she can’t or she won’t. If she won’t then she’s deliberately leading us to slaughter.