Simple Displays Of Love
This is what political resistance can look like.
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- Nov 1
Vote Your Conscience
Some people who claim to vote based on "the economy" are really just seeking socially-acceptable excuses to vote for straight white...
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- Oct 7
Electoral Love
Voting against someone's civil rights is not an act of love, even if it might lower your taxes.
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- Oct 2
Too Pleased With Ourselves
Gay white cis men who vote Republican in the U.S. seem real happy to ignore the homophobia in order to enjoy the racism and misogyny.
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- Sep 21
Misplaced Fears
Living in the U.S. means being forced to grapple with the intimacy of our hate and the dissolution of our differences, when it's our...
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- Sep 16
Sew What You Reap
We fear what we might feel compelled to do if we acknowledged our complex shared stories, in part because we're all so weary of this...
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- Aug 22
Manifest Destiny
Christofascism is more than just dangerous nonsense. It's a pyramid scheme designed to support the desperate desire for power and the...
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- Jul 26
What We Project
Tell me who your god hates, and I'll show you some neglected and unloved part of you desperate to be cherished and adored.
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- Jul 22
The Possibilities Are Endless
For Christofascists, principles are just a path to patriarchy and all things are possible.
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- Jul 14
The Stories We Choose
Acknowledging past pain invariably incurs a present cost, which is one reason in the U.S. we often choose to mythologize our massacres.
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- Jul 8
Time For Action
Let's harness our outrage, and channel it away from our keyboards and into our streets.
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- May 27
What Are We Willing To Risk
Too many allies pat themselves on the back for practicing tolerance, without actually risking anything to change the status quo.
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- May 2
Reparations Come At A Cost
It's almost like some of us think we might pay for the past systemic suffering of others without our present pain or inconvenience.
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- Mar 18
True To Who We Are
The tyranny of the majority is wholly self-satisfied and unbothered -- preening in their privilege and basking in their bigotry. Trying...
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- Dec 15, 2021
It's Up To Us
Don't be part of the permission structure for prejudice. Let's leverage our privilege to lift up others by meeting bias head on...
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- Nov 27, 2021
Putting It On The Line
Part of our work is to make "polite" bigotry socially unacceptable. We must risk discomfort and decorum to confront prejudice in the...
