I don't know how or if I can report this, which means I don't know if I'll write about it "officially" but it's truly unsettling to me how little national orgs, particularly HRC but others as well, are doing in response to the slow motion roll back of all our rights and progress.
They should be making so much noise they're unavoidable. Constant op-eds placed, constant interviews, their websites re-tooled to highlight the current fights and their place in it.
"They" are really "you." (Rethorical "you.")
If you want that change, you must help make it.
Write those pieces. Or donate enough money that it matters and lets someone else do it.
And you have to do all of this on top of existing commitments and demands, is really freaking hard.
And this is how well funded campaigns to whip up the loyals against the others, win the day, so they can keep lowering taxes (which is the actual end goal; the rest is just cynical operators.)
@StompyRobot I started an independent DAILY website monitoring anti-trans propaganda in the US. It's doing quite well- getting close to 150K unique views since launch, I've been interviewed a handful of times, couple podcast appearances, placed articles on Slate and the Objective.
Like, my concern here is that I, an individual who makes $30K a year at my day job, am having roughly as much impact (maybe more!) on this conversation than the largest, best funded LGBTQ+ organizations.
@e_urq amazing!
Action like this can push back the populists.
That's what activism is!
Evan Urquhart 🏳️⚧️
Very Human Robot