I thought at the time that it was some weird fluke that Arizona “Public Service” cut off my mother when it was too hot for her to survive without air conditioning, but of course it turns out that it is policy which a local activist has been fighting for years.

http://StopTheAPSgreed.com/

I also have an aversion to begging for re-shares, but I hope folks will do me a solid this time.

Embarrassing APS is the only thing I can do for my mother now.

OK so, why wasn’t she given credit for her role as an early leader in the Modern Civil Rights movement and one of the first to use nonviolence as a means of achieving racial equality in the US?

👇argues that Barbara wasn’t given credit because she was a child.

I'll add that she wasn't recognized because she was a girl, poor, and black—what scholars call the “triple invisibility.”

After her strike, her life was threatened and her family home was burned down.

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@CindyWeinstein never expected abusive parents being the ones who would get more legal support while the abused get less… seems a bit backward to me.

My parents forced me to stay in the closet and it resulted in my running away and developing decades worth of self-hate (and a lot of therapy $$). Abusing kids because of their identities doesn’t change their identities, it does however affect their ability to survive.