Play Time Is Over
On Election Night, entire states became sundown towns.
I need you to know that yesterday a group of masked neo-Nazis marched through the Short North neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. Last night, I sat in my apartment in Cambridge, MA — where I now live and plan to stay for reasons that don’t need to be explained — and watched video footage of those lethal cowards marching on the very block I lived on for nearly five years. The very same block.
On Election Night, entire states became sundown towns.
This isn’t about me. This is about the friends and neighbors and weirdos and children and elders and strangers and artists who still there. They have a right to not just feel safe but welcomed and needed where they live.
Perhaps you can donate to local LGBT organizations like Stonewall Columbus. Maybe you can subscribe to Matter News which is a great local news site doing important work. Maybe you can punch the next lethal coward you come across dead in the face. Tell him Saeed sent you. Share other ideas in the comments. Last night, I put a hex on someone deeply invested in “both sides.”
Get active or get out of the fucking way. Weaponized incompetence is a tool of white supremacy. Quit acting brand new. As my mom used to say “Play time is OVER.”
I hope this is ok to share: There’s a cartoon where one person asks the other abt the future. The other responds that he sees flowers in the future. He is asked, how do you know that? He responds, because I’m planting flowers.
I have been donating as much as I am able. I have also been “planting flowers” in other ways. I used to volunteer a lot, and have recently signed up locally.
Also, just making sure the people around me feel safe and protected. A good friend of mine has two trans kids, one who is young. I have been trying to help her feel supported. She is having a rough time and is just a KID. I let her mom know my home is a safe space for her kids if they need help.
Fuck yes. On a mostly unrelated note….can we get a Hex tutorial? I have a need to know.