It's really, really important to a certain kind of white person to believe that all racism is fake. Sure, they know racist *actions* happen, but there must always be an ulterior motive. Deep down, the racist *must* know all races are equal (duh), they're just doing this for money/clout/influence.

The “class war over everything” populist rhetoric is mind numbingly stupid.

my ally is a suburban lawyer outside of Charlotte who voted for Romney and is now fundraising for Roy Cooper. Not a poor coal miner in West Virginia who spent all of his money on an F-150 with Trump flags

Put him in the HoF

Bluesky, seeing gay rights activists in the 80's partying at nightclubs after a day of advocacy: READ THE ROOM, DON'T YOU KNOW PEOPLE ARE *DYING*?!?!!
Yes, that's why the parties exist. A love of life is why you live, it's not a treat you get after Activisming enough like a trained dog.

We also have our YOUTH doing much needed advocacy work. All of our youth from the fams we support are organizing and sharing their stories because we create the environment for them to do so. As an undocumented youth I’d never thought to have a space like this to process a loss like this

in the Midwest (think Chicago/Milwaukee) this counts as layers due to the cold