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Sami Schalk 🏳️‍🌈
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Don’t talk about #Stonewall50 if you’re not going to support trans ppl.
Don’t celebrate #Stonewall if you’re not going to fight for queer & trans ppl of color.
Don’t claim OUR history if you don’t intend to continue to struggle for freedom & justice for ALL queer & trans folks.
This means supporting sex workers.
This means fighting for disability justice.
This means condemning the prison industrial complex.
This means recognizing cis privilege.
This means no fucking cops & corporations at #Pride.
This means not being content until ALL OF US can live our lives free from racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist, classist, xenophobic, anti-Semitic, Islamaphobic violence in a nation that provides the food, housing, education, & healthcare we need to thrive.
If you’re not on board with that, if you only want to focus on the success of the whitest, weathiest, cis, & privileged gays to claim we have arrived, then you shouldn’t claim this radical, revolutionary history. We owe Marsha P. Johnson & comrades better. Don’t settle. Fight.
#StonewallForever #PrideMonth #NoCopsAtPride #StonewallInn #stonewallisnow #StonewallRiots
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