hey white feminists!
ok yay SB5 is dead
now stop celebrating for just one moment to consider:
- the women of color and poor/working class women who will be turned away at the polls in droves because part of the Voting Rights Act was repealed today
- the fact that women of color like Senator Leticia van de Putte are ALREADY having their words and actions erased, misattributed to Wendy Davis, whose blonde face and bright sneakers make her the perfect White Feminist Icon ™
- trans*/intersex/gender non-conforming folks, whose reproductive rights are always under vastly more scrutiny than cis women’s
- Native women whose sovereignty was dealt yet another blow today in the “Veronica” case
- Lesbian/queer/bisexual/same gender-loving women whose right to marry will be deliberated upon tomorrow (and the lesbian/queer/bisexual/same gender-loving women dying every day with concerns far more life-threatening than the right to participate in a capitalist institution)
for the love of wendy davis’s pink sneakers, PLEASE look beyond the narrow scope of your own politics in this moment and be TRULY revolutionary.
there is so much more at stake in this political moment than you may realize, and to dismiss the life-threatening concerns of other women while celebrating this victory would be counterintuitive at best, and a repackaged version of white supremacist PATRIARCHY at worst.
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