14 years ago today I was outed for being #bisexual and #polyamorous by a now defunct local Republican blog. Upset they weren’t getting more media attention they started sending my posts & photos to my board members & legislative leaders.
I quit my job when the press harassed me.
Because I deviated from the straight, monogamous norm, I was treated as a scandal per se. They felt free to dehumanize me, advocate for my children to be taken away from me and speculate wildly on who I had slept with. They constructed a tale where I traded sex for votes.
Oct 13, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
It sounds like he’s talked before about how monogamy isn’t natural. But all of this also sounds exactly how monogamous, nosy neighbors & friends would judge & discuss public displays of nonmonogamy to the press. Gossip columns create scandals to reinforce monogamous “norms”.
I’m also sensing a familiar tale. Consider how you’d perceive it if:
a) they had a relationship agreement on par with DADT
b) he or they have been seeing other people for years
c) he violated the agreement by being photographed
d) she’s devastated about the press situation.
Oct 11, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
A day home alone with Warrior.
Expect me to stir up some trouble
😻😎❤️
First up: we made meatballs together. They are now happily simmering in some pasta sauce in the slow cooker. Our house will smell even more amazing in the next 4 hours. 🤤
If I’m feeling up to it, I might make some zucchini bread too 😘
Oct 11, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Voting third party in THIS election is just a lazy, meaningless demonstration of privilege.
Shrouded by the “courage of your convictions” third party votes are just dicking around with queer, BIPOC, disabled & immigrant lives because of the hubris that they’ll survive facism 😡
If you’ve been on my feed long enough, you’ll know I have worked campaigns before, I’ve worked in policy AND I care about trauma informed social change. In any other election (other than 2016), I haven’t cared as much.
