I've been thinking about our lives over the past few of years, Oklahoma. I hope we don't forget easily that at every opportunity @GovStitt let us die or tried to kill our hope.
Health care services in rural Oklahoma vanishing, over 10K Okies we lost to COVID,..
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Attacks on public education, quickly removing people in power that work with community in mind, signing bills into law that blatantly put people's lives at risk, making the Jones family wait to spare Julius' life - the list goes on & he's done it in the name of God.
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I hope that we all remember at the end of the day this man was worried about his next political move rather than listening to Oklahomans. It doesn't matter if you have an R, D, or I behind your name.
We are all expendable to him.
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I am so thankful that Julius is here with us, but I won't thank him for this.
However, I do thank the Jones Family for letting us share in this pain & this immense action of love.
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I want you to remember this: we cannot heal in the same place that made us sick, & right now a sickness has a hold on OK.
Leading up to November 2022 we have to work hard to move away from this sickness. We have to vote for a governor that cares about us & our well-being.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance is recognized on Nov. 20 to memorialize those who were murdered due to anti-transgender & gender non-conforming (GNC) hate or prejudice.
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Today, and everyday, we need to raise public awareness of the violence and hate crimes against trans and gender non-conforming people. This is how we build a future with all of our siblings in it.
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Our lives our valued and full of love, we deserve to get to experience every year offered to us on this earth, without fear of death for being showing up fully.
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The death penalty has no place in this world. To think people get justice by watching someone die lacks the sight of community care while highlighting 1 of the worst truths about our prison industrial complex - it's fueled by revenge & has nothing to do w/ rehabilitation.
John Grant's murder has really taken a large toll on Oklahomans, myself included because we have been fighting against this system for so long.
We are up against folks whose 2 solutions for communities lacking resources is to either cast them away or state-sanctioned murder. 2/5
We know the safest communities aren't over-policed, and they aren't areas with harsher punishment/sentencing.
The safest communities are ones with public education that meets students learning needs. Access to affordable health care, so folks don't have to self-medicate. 3/5
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
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/