I see a lot of trans folks scared that we're going to be exterminated right now. And you're right that they're going to try.
So I want to say this: they tried before, from 1981-1989.
And for most of you, every moment of queer joy you've ever had came in the shadow of that last effort to kill us.
So I want to say this: they tried before, from 1981-1989.
And for most of you, every moment of queer joy you've ever had came in the shadow of that last effort to kill us.
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You didn’t need to say shit to be an ally here. could have just listened. you have to be seen. So you can be sanctimonious about representatives? This is our lives not just a movement.
You have a strange approach for enticing people to take bullets. How effective has it been for you?
We need accomplices.
We will lose people we love dearly over the coming years - but they will not, cannot, wipe us out.
Queerness is a naturally occurring feature of the human condition.
WE WILL OUTLAST THEM.
I was 6 in ‘81. I remember slowly figuring out my queer self & learning to be closeted when a 3rd grade friend told me that only F’s got & deserved to have AIDS.
Back then the leaders trying to erase us still had fear & respect for the rule of law. I don’t see that today & it does worry me.
He got white, like he’d never considered the question…
Many of us fell, but those who remain outlasted them.
Those who fell will give those who lived the strength to fight.