I recently read the Washington Post editorial by Perry Bacon, Jr. detailing the abrupt fall of CNN’s Chris Licht. And I couldn’t agree more with his sentiment that there is a problem with centrist, anti-woke sentiment. Then I started thinking more about it, and thinking about it as a self-identified woke, anti-racist, feminist. All the attacks and the name-calling from the right, the constant drumbeat against trans kids and drag queens and the LGBTQ community as a whole (if I have to see one more person claiming that LGBTQ people just living their lives are “cramming it down our throats” one more time in a comment section…), the racist othering we see conservatives doing to asylum seekers and immigrants while cheering as they are illegally marched onto busses and chartered planes to dump in a “blue state,” the science denialism that the planet is warming. All of these things serve to prop up the current late-capitalist patriarchy that we all call home.
As Anti-trans Bills Dominate State Legislatures, Mass Shootings Increase Unabated
I have a public service announcement: transgender/gender queer/nonbinary people are human beings and the concerted extremist attack on the right for transgender people to exit is deeply, deeply sick. As of April 3, 2023, at “least 417 anti-LGBTQ bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the United States since the start of the year,” according to CNN.
Hysteria is in the Eye of the Oppressor
To all of us who have ever been called hysterical for warning that systemic right-wing attacks on reproductive rights could push the United States back to the pre-Roe era where legal and safe abortions were nearly impossible to come by in some states, congratulations! We were right.