To my intersectional community…

We need to stop giving each other a pass. Be assertive. Don’t let a trans person be racist because they’re trans. Don’t let a disabled person be homophobic because they’re disabled. Don’t let a POC be ableist because they’re a POC.

As a part of all of these communities, it feels like such a betrayal to be consistently let down by everyone who is supposed to have my back. We are letting things slide for the sake of not falling apart, but we’re not even together.

In the “us” that is the “us versus them” we have created more divisions, more totem poles. While we’re supposed to be fighting against what’s important, we’re fighting against ourselves and pretending it’s not happening. We’re stepping on the most vulnerable, denying it ever happens.

Some of us are completely left out of the conversation, and those people’s voices are the most endangered of being extinguished. It’s time to do away with performative activism. True activism has nothing to do with social media fame.

We seek the dawn of equivalency. What does that look like to you?