5/🧵I am NOT on this earth to raise anyone who would do anything less. Thank goodness that message has gotten through. 💜 #bebrave #donotcomply #makegoodtrouble #always

4/🧵I told my son that if/when he is ever in a situation like this, witnesses anything like this, he MUST stand up and speak up and NOT BE COMPLICIT. Even if he gets in trouble. Even if he gets arrested. I asked if he understood why, and he answered with an emphatic YES.

3/🧵Every single person in that room was COMPLICIT. I told my son that that woman could have been me, his mother; it could have been his grandmother, it could have been his cousin, or any of his friends - female, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, or otherwise. It could have even been him.

2/🧵I pointed out how the men were not in uniform and failed to identify themselves - also illegal. I pointed out how NO ONE - man or woman - stood up for her, and one man actually fully obliged the security guards by vacating his seat so they could more easily reach her.

From Instagram:

I'm tired. But I am also furious. This is why we cannot disagree on basic human rights and still be friends. 🤷🏼‍♀️ #nevergoingback #womensrightsarehumanrights #fuckthepatriarchy

These little - not so little - experiences chip away at you until nothing is left but exposed, raw rage. These are only two in a 52-year lifetime that I could have shared. And yet so many more are to come as we're witnessing now.

I think about both of those experiences often, and with resentment. I'll never forget them, or how they made me feel. That's one reason why I will never stop resisting.

had to go to such a large school. She was glad it wasn't her. I never told my mother or anyone else about the boy's comment, because I knew nothing would be done about it and she'd just be glad it wasn't her.

I only attended for a year, because we moved around a lot. It was my third high school during my 9th grade year, actually. And a second core memory happened there, as well - that of my mother dropping me off for my first day and leaving me with the statement that she was glad it wasn't her that

In a classroom setting that should be safe for everyone? And here we are again. That high school was typical of the over-sized, 2000+ student body that is still the norm in most cities in Texas today.

This was deliberately said in my presence, as we sat in assigned seating (teachers, please do away with this) at a shared table for class, and they both looked at me for a reaction. I didn't give them one. How is a 15yo girl supposed to respond in that situation?