#and that's literally why I haven't exited stage right yet is because I've spent a lifetime training for THIS fight in THIS place
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I get the weirdest liberal version of thoughts and prayers over being from Indiana sometimes but there is something to be said about the devil you know vs. the devil you don't.
#erin is talking#the thing is - I've lived here my entire life and been doing queer liberation activism here since I was 13#it sucks here but it's also always been PREDICTABLE here#this is the devil I know which really does wonders in knowing how to fight it. and knowing in what ways you'll never succeed in fighting it#surrounding areas are the devil I don't know - some of them just as bad as IN AND unfamiliar which makes me less capable of fighting them#it's not even that people stay in southern states out of some ethical obligation to fight back but#no one is more knowledgeable and equipped to handle Indiana's particular brand of crap than the people who've spent lifetimes dealing w/ it#our activist movements have always had to be creative here bc outside of Indy and Bloomington public office is going to go red. it's a fact#no amount of hoping and wishing is going to make those counties less red. you can't exhaust all your energy into VOTING VOTING VOTING#because it straight-up doesn't work like that here and you'll be defeated all the time if you do that.#we know how to get way more creative about throwing sand in the gears of oppression because we have to#and we're USED to it#the people from crapsack red states are in fact uniquely qualified to handle their state's particular crapsack brand of fascism#and that's literally why I haven't exited stage right yet is because I've spent a lifetime training for THIS fight in THIS place
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