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tzeentchling
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This thread is back because, honestly, it needs to exist here. There's too much going on out there, and the members of this community need a place to discuss/vent.
If you make up some part of the QUILTBAG (even if you don’t fit in that cute little acronym) then I hope this thread can be a place for you to feel comfortable talking about it!
Of course heterosexual cisgender folks are welcome as well just try and be considerate of the space, that’s all. Feel free to ask if you have any questions (though maybe try google first) or talk about stuff that falls under the purview of the thread, the important thing is don’t be jerk.
Things worth keeping in mind:
If you ask a question then take some time to absorb the answer, even if it doesn’t make sense right away maybe let it percolate a little bit before arguing about it.
Don't misgender or deadname people (both your fellow forumers and people who don’t post here), if you aren’t sure what pronoun or name you should use then you can always say so!
Be respectful of whatever labels people self-apply. It is never ever up to you to decide that someone is not actually bi or not really a woman or anything like that. I don’t care what your reasoning is, you are wrong to do so and this is not the venue to argue semantics.
So let's talk about some gay shit! (and trans shit and bi shit and ace shit and every other kind.)
(Intro text from @Kwoaru, pictures from Buzzfeed coverage of the Women's Marches on 1/21/17)
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At least it's Brunch Gay today though!
Also I am so very proud of all my QUILTBAGs who are protesting. You're all amazing and so very inspiring.
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Because my feminism will be intersectional, and all issues are feminist issues.
I'm so proud of DC on Saturday. Half a million people were on the streets peacefully and went home peacefully.
I suspect this is becoming a primary rallying point for anti-Trump sentiment because, of all the shitty things about him, his treatment of women offends the broadest span of people. The breaking point for a lot of moderates and even many conservatives seems to have been when he was caught on tape bragging about molesting women. If you want the biggest possible turnout for the protest, phrasing it in terms of "OUR PRESIDENT IS A CONFESSED RAPIST" is a pretty effective plan.
But then under that primary rallying cause, everybody who's pissed about other things about him shows up too.
and instead should be at the front and center of it
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Because it was a protest march begun and organized by women to protest the anti-women's rights policies of this conservative administration.
I'm not exactly up on the details either, but I believe the whole thing started with either a couple of women or a women's organization deciding to put together a protest march. Hence Women's March.
It, uhm... kind of grew a bit bigger than originally envisioned. But the name stayed the same.
I've been sorta turnt up the past few days
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the demonstrations (yes, even the ones where they smashed windows, trash cans, and lit a limo on fire) was a good reminder that some folk will throw their bodies in the way of people like me and oppression
after a year of election coverage obfuscating this, with two parties who I knew didn't have my best interests at heart, it's REALLY important to me
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The inauguration day protesting takes a bit of a sour tone for me, as a friend of mine was one of the people arrested (and charged with a felony, on top of that).
Like, I'm hella proud of everyone, absolutely, but every time I think of it I am also inevitably thinking of that.
And yes the crimes most of the two hundred or so protesters arrested in DC are pretty bullshit.
Is there any chance the charge gets dismissed?
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shit, and they went fucking hard on the charges they're swinging around
my <3s to you and your friend
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The march started as two independent facebook events started by white women. It quickly became clear that this was bigger than a facebook meetup, and the two women, counter to a lot of how these sorts of things go, realized that hosting a march around a social issue was likely to be hosting a march around the way that social issue affected white people.
They immediately and actively courted the voices of minority women to fight this tendency, including involving those voices at the top of the organization. This meant that intersectionality ended up much more front and center than it would have, traditionally.
However, since the original idea was called the Women's March, and the bulk of the intersectional issues raised did intersect on women, the name stayed.
EDIT: For clarification on how everything got started