Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label equality. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Who stands with us? TRUMP stands with us!
At least when he doesn't have his hands full. And he's not cheating on whichever wife is his current one. And he's not busy checking the Miss Universe dressing rooms and humiliating trans people to keep our women safe. Now go take your shoes off, get pregnant and cook him something in the kitchen so he can have tremendous respect for YOU.
Labels:
equality,
lies,
man-boy,
solidarity,
transgender,
Trump,
Twitter,
women
Design. Composition. Tone. Form. Symmetry. Balance. More red.
Remember to wear red on International Women's Day today so your wives have a difficult color that doesn't sort easily into any color category when they do your laundry.
Or do it to stand in solidarity with the underappreciated half of our population that manages our households, gives birth to our children, dances backward in heels, puts up with or hopefully fights back against pussy-grabbing pieces of shit, does equal work for less pay, wholly constitutes the upper percentages of my favorite bosses I've ever worked for, overwhelmingly kicks my ass at marathons and will probably kick yours, and, yes, are the people most likely to worry about your red shirts bleeding all over everything in the laundry.
Hint: Pick the second option. And wear red today.
Or do it to stand in solidarity with the underappreciated half of our population that manages our households, gives birth to our children, dances backward in heels, puts up with or hopefully fights back against pussy-grabbing pieces of shit, does equal work for less pay, wholly constitutes the upper percentages of my favorite bosses I've ever worked for, overwhelmingly kicks my ass at marathons and will probably kick yours, and, yes, are the people most likely to worry about your red shirts bleeding all over everything in the laundry.
Hint: Pick the second option. And wear red today.
Friday, February 24, 2017
We're here
For all the irrational hatred and the isolationist hypocrisy and the
manipulative demagoguery Trump and his party are using to tear this
country apart morally, socially and intellectually ... for all the
ignorance they've perpetuated and the lies they've parroted to shore up
their base ... for all the ugliness and hostility and racism and sexism
and phobias they've unleashed from the dungeons and the shadows and the
basest instincts of humankind this week alone ... they've ironically
and unintentionally and no doubt regrettably inspired something quite
beautiful: a mass uprising of love and support for every person they
vilify and every minority they oppress and every demographic they
scapegoat in their bloodthirsty quest to dehumanize and destroy us all
for their own gain.
And if you're a trans person -- especially if you're a trans kid -- we want you to know we're here.
There are legions of us who have been and who currently are and who will continue to be your friends and allies and champions with no judgments, no condemnations and no barriers. We may not have been as visible to you as we'd have liked in the past out of consideration for your privacy or lack of a forum to communicate to you or even out of concern that we might inadvertently say or do something awkward or uncomfortable or insensitive around you. But we're here. And it is now our moral and social and just simply human imperative to make sure you know who we are.
Whether you're just coming to terms with your need to transition, beginning to comprehend the emotional and physical and social journey ahead of you, taking the first tentative steps in changing your persona and your presentation and your name, or standing bravely and confidently and proudly at any point on the transition continuum ... our primary interest in your trans identity is that you are safe and healthy and happy.
We may never fully comprehend the extent of what your personal or collective journey has entailed -- and we may ask a lot of questions both out of curiosity and a sincere need to better understand where you've been and where you're going.
But we're here. And we stand with you both at the urinal and at the dawn of a new sense of community. And we want you to know we love and respect you just as you are. Or just as you need to be.
We're here.
#TransRights
And if you're a trans person -- especially if you're a trans kid -- we want you to know we're here.
There are legions of us who have been and who currently are and who will continue to be your friends and allies and champions with no judgments, no condemnations and no barriers. We may not have been as visible to you as we'd have liked in the past out of consideration for your privacy or lack of a forum to communicate to you or even out of concern that we might inadvertently say or do something awkward or uncomfortable or insensitive around you. But we're here. And it is now our moral and social and just simply human imperative to make sure you know who we are.
Whether you're just coming to terms with your need to transition, beginning to comprehend the emotional and physical and social journey ahead of you, taking the first tentative steps in changing your persona and your presentation and your name, or standing bravely and confidently and proudly at any point on the transition continuum ... our primary interest in your trans identity is that you are safe and healthy and happy.
We may never fully comprehend the extent of what your personal or collective journey has entailed -- and we may ask a lot of questions both out of curiosity and a sincere need to better understand where you've been and where you're going.
But we're here. And we stand with you both at the urinal and at the dawn of a new sense of community. And we want you to know we love and respect you just as you are. Or just as you need to be.
We're here.
#TransRights
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Very much enjoyed?
You "very much enjoyed" exhibits on the horrors of slavery and the cruelties of racism and the never-ending battle for civil rights in our country? Enjoyed? ENJOYED?
Did you even go IN the museum? Or did you just stand by the doors wearing your uneducated-rich-white-male-privilege blinders and waving to the media that you obsessively accuse of being fake but whose existence you'd die without while you struggled to think of a way to reduce a photo op in a long-named museum to a dismissive, meaningless tweet?
Enjoyed?
I'm touring the National Museum of African American History and Culture this summer. And I expect to weep in sorrow and horror and shame as I witness the gut-wrenching barbarity and oppression and indifference inflicted by white people on black people starting centuries before this country was founded and now proudly emerging from the shadows in the ugly Zeitgeist of your unholy, unpresidential administration.
Enjoyed?
I expect to be left numb and aghast and overwhelmed by what I've seen and experienced and learned when I leave the museum. I expect to be overcome with the same appalled, devastated sense of hopelessness I've experienced every time I've left the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. And I expect the experience to propel me ardently forward in what I profoundly and humbly hope is my perpetual evolution toward understanding and compassion and sympathy and kindness and decency and justice and a resolute dissolution of prejudices both acknowledged and undiscovered that I harbor.
Enjoyed?
The National Museum of African American History and Culture isn't a collection of exhibits celebrating the work of their curators. Describing it as "a great job done by amazing people" is at best an admission that you've never stepped foot in a museum and at worst a thundering declaration of deliberate, dismissive racism -- media-blasted after a perfunctory, last-minute charade of solidarity near the end of Black History Month, no less. Are you really that uneducated, uncultured and callous? Did you post this tweet to convince yourself that you're not paralyzingly uneducated, uncultured and racist? Did you do it to convince your supporters that you don't know that they are?
Did you honestly think this tweet would elevate your standing as a public figure? Elevate the national discourse on race and culture? Elevate what's left of your value as a human being?
Have you very much enjoyed what you've become?
Friday, January 20, 2017
"Selma to Stonewall"
For nearly a decade and all of an era, my President -- my conscientious, intelligent, egalitarian, accomplished, diplomatic, relentlessly inspiring and unapologetically yes-we-can-ing President -- has brought our nation a mountaintop eight years of dignity and clarity and principled leadership and national apotheosis and -- yes, as promised, as expected, as delivered, as savored day after day after day for two consecutive, exemplary, triumphant administrations -- hope. Calming hope. Inspiring hope. Enduring hope. Presidential hope.
And for the first time in the history of our noble, beautiful, glorious, always-full-of-wonderful-life-changing-promise country, he made me a part of it. A part of the dialogue. A part of the people. A part of the staggeringly hard-fought, always-on-the-front-lines-of-vital-importance equality.
And I am so grateful, Mr. President. So exhilarated. So proud to be a part of your vision. Your promise. Your world.
You have indeed brought us -- all of us, across the country, around the globe -- change we can believe in. So I thank you. We thank you. You have made us immeasurably, profoundly, everlastingly better.
And though we knew this day would come and you and your family would step down with the grace and respect and dignity that have been the hallmarks of your leadership, it's still overwhelmingly difficult to say goodbye.
And for the first time in the history of our noble, beautiful, glorious, always-full-of-wonderful-life-changing-promise country, he made me a part of it. A part of the dialogue. A part of the people. A part of the staggeringly hard-fought, always-on-the-front-lines-of-vital-importance equality.
And I am so grateful, Mr. President. So exhilarated. So proud to be a part of your vision. Your promise. Your world.
You have indeed brought us -- all of us, across the country, around the globe -- change we can believe in. So I thank you. We thank you. You have made us immeasurably, profoundly, everlastingly better.
And though we knew this day would come and you and your family would step down with the grace and respect and dignity that have been the hallmarks of your leadership, it's still overwhelmingly difficult to say goodbye.
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