Mastodawn

Look - I've only been on Mastodon/Fediverse since 2022. I'm a non-techy person who has been perpetually online since early 90s. There's never been a fully safe space for an outspoken, disabled POC person like me - in any online community. Even going back to Usenet days - I was a minority. Every single SM I've been on has been majority white folks. Same with the Fedi. We need more diversity everywhere - online & offline.

I'm not leaving this platform due to being a minority. I'm staying & will fight for my presence & for fellow marginalized POC presences. I have always had to fight, almost my entire life - for space & to be included as a visibly disabled POC woman who is loud as heck with issues close to my heart & soul.

I can't remember when I didn't have to fight for that. My experiences here now are vastly different than in 2022. I still get some racist jerks who do their cowardly racist shit. I'm not letting those racist fuckers run me off here. FUCK THEM. I'm staying & they can go fuck off.

#POCVoices #PeopleWithDisabilities #MarginalizedVoices #WomenOfTheResistance #POCWomen #FuckRacism #NotLeaving

Cole LeFavour (they/them)Jan 23, 2023

@ShekinahCanCook
Ah yes. Some do very much dream about chasing us all out. Good luck to them. They are a tiny fragment of the populace which, if we keep reminding our neighbors how much of our lives they’re wasting by failing to focus on wages, #housing health and the cost of elder care, child care—maybe average people will disengage from the extremism and racism and remember #lgbtq people and their neighbors have never just been white & that being cruel gets the world nowhere but messed up. #notleaving #staying in #idaho to make the place more loving, safe, just and free for ALL of us—not just the pale cruel few. Hope you all join us & work to end this senseless violence, censorship & demonizing & get our state leaders to work on real issues.