Thread by @KDansky

Artifacts Gallery is a store in my hometown of Athens, Ohio (a small town that is home to Ohio University). It sells lots of pottery, t-shirts, and funky earrings (among other things). I spent a massive amount of time there as a teenager. 1/13

Its current owner is @atheistathenian (Amy). At some point last year, she started to get loud about the sex-based rights of women and girls and the material reality of sex. The reaction in town was mixed. 2/13

Some people started calling for a boycott of the store, and a childhood friend (who knows about my TERFiness) reached out to tell me about it. I got in touch with Amy via the store's FB page. She and I had never met before that. 3/13

She quickly got plugged in as a volunteer for @WDI_USA and has been working hard ever since, designing amazing graphics and other artwork. She's a creative genius (IMHO). 4/13

A few weeks ago, she made her storefront look like this (she designed the poster about the Declaration on Women's Sex-Based Rights). 5/13

People got mad and announced a protest for this morning. I decided to go to Athens to support Amy and the store. Last night, she added this sign to the store window. The point of the sign is to get people thinking and talking. 6/13

The protest happened as planned and we livestreamed it from within the store. The livestream is no longer available because I am a tech idiot and apparently did not manage to save it to the WDI USA FB page (literally my fault, completely). 7/13

As I left the store, a woman ran up to me with her phone directed at me. She yelled to her friends, "Look! A real live TERF in the wild!" She asked, "Your name is Kara, right?" and I said yes. 8/13

Then she said, "I can't listen to your arguments until I see your genitals, isn't that right according to TERF logic?" I said, "No, that makes no sense whatsoever." She just ran away. 9/13

Then I went to a restaurant for lunch and a woman approached my table, asking if I'm Kara Dansky. I asked why she wanted to know. She explained that she is a friend of Amy's, completely supportive of women's sex-based rights, and a retired biology teacher. 10/13

She said she is glad to see that the tide is turning and that people are waking up to the insanity of "gender identity." She wanted to know how she could be more involved and supportive and I told her. She said that she would. 11/13

Then, just now, a reporter from a local paper approached me and asked me a bunch of questions about women's sex-based rights, what the phrase refers to, why I am here to support Amy, what intersex has to do with all of this, and a bunch of other things, so I explained. 12/13

It's been a good day so far. People are peaking everywhere.

We're going to win.

#terfs #TERF
#TERFLife

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Epilogue: I forgot to mention that during the protest, Amy put a cute photo of a cat in a basket of flowers in the window and one of the protesters yelled, "That cat is transphobic!" Please post photos of your transphobic cats here if you feel like it.

Epilogue 2: Facebook finally managed to post the video. You can watch here if you'd like. @WDI_USA facebook.com/WDI.USA/videos…