On 11/9/2016 a young woman I considered a friend, told me she had voted for Jill Stein, because “she couldn’t vote for the lesser of two evils”. I hung up the phone and blocked her number. I just saw her crying on social media over Trump’s latest SCOTUS pick. 1/

This is the ending we warned women like her about. We told them that no woman exits a battlefield blemish free. The very act of fighting, was to be smeared and slandered. Instead they joined men in the smearing. Men aren’t the ones losing their reproductive rights, women are. 2/

I guess I’m more detached because I have been expecting this ending since 11/9/2016. It’s why I cried, it what I was so heartbroken. It’s why I grieved until January 2019, when Kamala Harris made me feel hope again. I’m feel for all the young women who were duped into throwing 3/

...away their rights. Into giving Republicans the Courts for the next 40 years. This is a painful lesson, I hope they remember it and learn, an imperfect champion is better than none. 4/x