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January 31 - February 12, 2020
Harvey Milk once said: “Hope will never remain silent.”
The experience of each woman—cis or trans—is different, but a similar thread underpins it all: the policing of gender. The devaluation of lives, hopes, and one’s body. The threat of violence.
Having certain privileges does not mean that your life is easy or that you do not face challenges. It just means that you don’t experience specific kinds of obstacles or barriers faced by someone with a different identity or background. And our empathy should require us to acknowledge the plight of others in both its similarities to ours and in its differences.
up until the Clinton administration, LGBTQ people were routinely denied security clearances simply because of who they were. Perhaps
Our identities matter. They help make us who we are and shape our outlook. Existing in them is a radical act, one that requires, in many instances, courage, hard work, and determination. I am a better person because of the experiences and insights that I’ve had
Every day matters in this fight. Dr. King called it “the fierce urgency of now.” Hope can be limitless.
Inspiration can always be found. Ideas are endless. But time, that is one resource none of us can afford to waste.
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.
