figures like Sam Gamgee, Aragorn, Gandalf, King Arthur, Lyra Balacqua, Hermione Granger and the like, a moral compass and the courage I needed to see in myself when I was young. It had a lasting effect.

Can you imagine King Arthur saying, “Grab them by the pussy”? Jesus fucking Christ.

else you think. We might differ on a lot. We might differ to the point of irreconcilable differences, but I at least want to talk and see if we can unite in the short term. There’s just way too much at stake to not even try. It is my hope that I’m not alone in this thought process.

nuanced conversations, but until most of us are willing and able to put aside the minutiae and identify strong common causes to rally around, we will continue to lose. So for my part, if you think MAGA is the antithesis to human decency I want to have a conversation with you regardless of whatever

and the guy across the street thinks trans people are all mentally ill groomers, the fact that you and I don’t see eye to eye on whether or not it’s ok to still like Harry Potter becomes irrelevant until the guy across the street isn’t saying that shit anymore. I do believe that we have to have

Progress is often incremental and chaos is immediate. We cannot sacrifice the future because our immediate reality doesn’t look exactly the way we want. Zoom out and consider the big picture. If you and I both agree that trans people are people who deserve access to all human rights and protections