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Apr 1 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I spent my entire PTSD therapy session talking about how under threat I feel due to all the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and hundreds of anti-LGBTQ laws being promoted and passed. I could feel my BP rising as we talked. My therapist warned me it was only going to get worse.
For those unaware of the orchestrated assault on LGBTQ Americans by the GOP as was highlighted during the Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings, I wrote about it here:
epgn.com/2022/03/23/ket…
Also, there are literally HUNDREDS of anti-LGBTQ laws in state legislatures right now. I reported on that here. Please read/RT
epgn.com/2022/03/23/rec…
And this week Ron DeSantis signed the #DontSayGay law, and Arizona Oklahoma and Utah passed other anti-LGBTQ laws, as I wrote here👇🏻Please read/RT
epgn.com/2022/03/31/don…

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Apr 3
Hating this debate, which reminds me yet again that Philadelphians are so much more progressive than mid-state. Malcolm Kenyatta even looks like he's from a different century than Conor Lamb.
#pasen
Kenyatta speaking out on green energy--like Biden-Harris. Lamb speaking out for fracking. Yikes.
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Lamb doesn't answer the question. Kenyatta talks about the groundwater and about environmental racism. He also invokes how Josh Shapiro has been prosecuting fracking.
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Apr 1
Violent abusive men who should have their Oscars stripped before Will Smith.
Charlie Chaplin
Harvey Weinstein
Roman Polanski
Mel Gibson
Woody Allen
Kevin Spacey
Casey Affleck
Gary Oldman
Sean Penn
Quentin Tarantino
Jared Leto
Bryan Singer
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Some of these men have made among the most iconic films in Hollywood history. Hitchcock and Tarantino were abusive to women. Uma Thurman accused Tarantino of abuse and Tarantino said he "only" choked her and spit on her during filming.
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Roman Polanski was convicted of raping a girl anally, orally and vaginally at Jack Nicholson's house. She had just turned 13. Before he was scheduled to go to prison, Polanski fled the US. He has continued to make films and won an Oscar in 2003, 26yrs after the rape.
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Mar 30
So after reading a bazillion Twitter threads and think pieces on The Slap, I wrote something completely different about violence in America and the privilege inherent in saying violence is always wrong. I hope you'll read this.

Is Violence Always Wrong? epgn.com/2022/03/30/is-…
"Is violence sometimes necessary, as Malcolm X once suggested, for oppressed people? Weren’t many advocating 'punching Nazis' throughout the white supremacist Trump years? Didn’t we talk obsessively as a nation about killing Osama bin Laden after 9/11?"
epgn.com/2022/03/30/is-…
"Another truth is that America is the most violent country in the world that isn’t actually a rogue state, with over 500 million guns. In 2020 there were more than 40,000 gun deaths and more than a quarter million shootings."
Is Violence Always Wrong? epgn.com/2022/03/30/is-…
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Mar 28
So I lost over 200 followers last night who said I was "condoning violence." I wasn't. Saying you understand someone's anger doesn't mean you condone violence. I explicitly stated I did not. But I have been the person with a disabling illness and also,now, the spouse of one.
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I've lost my hair to chemo in my 20s when I had breast cancer and 5yrs ago when I was paralyzed from a catastrophic injury. It's terrible. I'm very grateful my hair grew back, albeit a different color and texture. If your hair is defining (mine always was for me) it's hard.
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For several weeks my wife, who is never ill, has been unwell and going through myriad tests and biopsies. She's in pain and very debilitated. It's been horrible for her/us. These things made me empathetic to Jada Pinkett Smith and also understanding of Will Smith's anger.
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Mar 19
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So I left Twitter early Friday night because it's been a hellish week for me as a reporter & a lesbian & there were a bunch of folks in my mentions literally telling me #DontSayGay. It was just too much. Twitter's a big place. Exercise that option to just keep scrolling.
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Don't tell people in historically marginalized groups not to talk about being members of marginalized communities. We are the ones dealing with discrimination,not you. Instead you could figure out ways to be supportive and an ally. Otherwise you can always just say nothing.
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While navigating the healthcare system for my wife's care in the midst of her health crisis the past 10days I had to come out to more than a dozen strangers who would then be responsible for her care. Try & imagine what that would be like in the current political atmosphere.
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Mar 18
Actually, the NYT editorial board has a both sides problem. Equating the left, which fights for civil liberties, with the right, which is banning books and whole groups of people, misunderstands the issue of free speech.

America Has a Free Speech Problem nytimes.com/2022/03/18/opi…
The editorial states that people should be able to express opinions "without being shamed or shunned." That is not what free speech is. It's being able to express a loathesome opinion without being imprisoned for it. You're a newspaper--you should understand the First Amendment.
I mean not to put too fine a point on this but the NYT is part of fundamental case law on free speech, so you would think they would have a better grasp of what it is and know there's a difference between being anti- (left) and banning books (right). Honestly--do better.
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