The fragility of democracy is demonstrated in the fragility of real human bodies.
It's not some separate thing.
Democracy was shown fragile in the body of a migrant child floating in a border river or in the bullied trauma of a Trans child y'all turned away from.
It's not some separate thing.
Democracy was shown fragile in the body of a migrant child floating in a border river or in the bullied trauma of a Trans child y'all turned away from.
It's not fragile now.
It has been.
It was fragile when Darren Wilson murdered Mike Brown and cops round the nation voiced their solidarity with death.
It has been.
It was fragile when Darren Wilson murdered Mike Brown and cops round the nation voiced their solidarity with death.
It was fragile when el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (Malcolm X)'s home was firebombed and when Tulsa erupted in violence or when Indigenous people were ripped from their lands.
It was fragile when cops stormed The Stonewall Inn in their hatred of Queer bodies.
The fragility is in Matthew Shepard's body.
The fragility is in Matthew Shepard's body.
The fragility is in the treatment of Sandra Bland.
The fragility is on the bodies broken in Gaza in the American name.
The fragile bodies of those couped and crushed by American Empire bear a stronger witness.
Our fragility is not shown in the blustering blood of Donald J. Trump, a white man dedicated to his own hollow but dangerous power.
We've been fragile but the powerful didn't care when it was Black or Queer or Indigenous or Brown or female or children's bodies being crushed.
We've been fragile but the powerful didn't care when it was Black or Queer or Indigenous or Brown or female or children's bodies being crushed.
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