This statement is real rich in more ways than one. If you are paying attention please notice every time our governor makes a statement it's about a community he hasn't been in communication with & while using his power to further oppress us all. Sounds familiar..1/9
We have a governor who is out of touch with Oklahoman's - he doesn't know what's best for us.
When we are sick & ready to get better we do anything we can to become healthy again, we stop putting ourselves in situations that harm our well-being..2/9
"42% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, including more than half of transgender and nonbinary youth." @TrevorProject 3/9
We've seen our public education system crumble under this man, health care & access to it in rural Oklahoma is vanishing & in metro areas it's filling to the brim in the midst of a global pandemic. All so he can keep his economy growing while our families die..4/9
Stitt lacks the critical thinking skills to be able to care for Oklahomans & while pushing this idea that he will achieve a better life by letting communities he isn't part of suffer or vanish. Better life for who, him?? 5/9
Our communities are dying in various manners while he pretends COVID isn't real & plays checkers with our well being, living wages, access to education, our parents, siblings, children. Us. 6/9
The beautiful thing about it?? We get a 4K picture painted by Stitt that lets us know when he could step up & take care of Oklahoma's he'd rather step on us.
Our existence worries these men (multiple, read this thread) who are afraid of being apart of an equitable society. 7/9
I hope you are talking to you friends & family about how we can't stay in the same environment that contributes to our sickness, we must move. We've seen a Governor that's really good at death & destruction for the past 4 years. We deserve better, November 2022 & beyond 8/9
As for me - I'll continue to fight for my life & yours against an administration that doesn't know what to do other than bully it's people. I'll take this fight to the mat as long as House District 88 wants me to, but I need your help. 9/9
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I think we all knew what happened today was coming, & if you didn't then you haven't been paying attention.
There are a number of things that led to the domestic terrorism that took place in our nation's capital today. 1/6
The things that encourage people to partake in these types of terrorism look like, but are not limited to, 70 members of a legislature sending a letter to the Arizona House Speaker to discredit their election results 2/6
It also looks like attorney general's signing on to a lawsuit against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, & Wisconsin challenging their election results. Some elected officials, at every chance they could, did everything in their power to discredit the 2020 election results 3/6
I've been defending my right to show up & just exist as a Black, Queer, Gender-Diverse, Muslim-American for just about my whole life to rooms full of white cis-het men. Today wasn't new, but the hurt is different - 1/
it's always different when there is so much more than just you on the line.
Colleagues I've sat in rooms with since November 2020 that told me they would be committed to the use of proper pronouns, learning, & growing together, voted against our existence. 2/
Folks that behind closed doors wanted to show up & learn from me voted against our existence when it came time to do the same thing in public - and that is dangerous, but we new that. I knew that. 3/