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Proud of your daughter Martha, proud of Mayor Berry Vrbanovic and honestly? Sick and tired of the politics of hiding, of diminishing a community's existence, tired of hateful behavior by people in power who are supposed to be watching over ALL our children, sick and tired 1/8
of bigotry, of white male supremacy, and I could go on. This kind of hate kills people. It actually kills people. In one of my darkest moments, I considered suicide back in 2015, when I was seeing a woman, and I became terrified that the board would find out 2/8
and that I would get fired. I have never openly talked about this because the fear is still there. The only thing that saved me, is that I am certain that one of my daughters is queer, and then it dawned on me: who is going to defend her? Who is going to claw back 3/8
at the hateful violent human beings in this world? If not me, her mama bear, then who? And so I chose to stick around until the bitter end, but I won't stick around quietly anymore. Most of all, I am tired of tactics that are put in place to erase someone's 4/8
(or a group of people)'s agency, existence, political history, struggles, and identity. It's been done, over, and over, and over, and over - ask any Indigenous person, ask any Black person, ask any queer person. Time for ALL white-straight allies out there 5/8
To grow up and make space for authentic meaningful exchanges or else, quite frankly, I dont see any of us getting anywhere. None of us. This flag is cute. But it is a whitewashed, infantile attempt to diminish our experiences and it does not represent the queer community 6/8
As a symbol because it takes our power and our agency, not to mention our history and identity away. By the way: if any queer child harms themselves right now because of the fear they are feeling due to the blunt, open hateful speech spilled out in the last trustee meeting 7/8
I hope the board and the trustee then realize: this is on them. 8/8
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#LGBTIQ #LGBTQneveralone @MelVanAlphen @campbelllor @LauraMaeLindo @CFifeKW @mssuzannesmart @jenvasic @grade8mathers @berryonline @smoestoe @rchids @misterdebuono @_cassmyers @jeewanc @carlabeharry @BOTSunshine
