Take Your Time

it's 20% of VOTERS

so, once again, i am here telling you ABSTENTIONISM is the problem. and it always fucking is.

people who feel demotivated, underrepresented, or adhere to some purity culture where it's the revolution or nothing.

As soon as I turned 18 I registered to vote. I couldn’t legally get married anywhere in the U.S. because same sex marriage wasn’t legal. Homosexuals couldn’t openly serve in the military. Sodomy laws were still on the books. The far right was espousing “family values” rhetoric. AIDs had devastated the gay community.

But I could vote. And so I did and still do.

Same sex marriage is now legal, as is serving openly in the military. Sodomy laws are mostly gone or not enforced. AIDS is no longer a death sentence for all it touches.

However access to safe, legal abortions is limited and disappearing. Transphobia is rising as is a wave of hate for anyone who is not white, not cis, not straight, not a native English speaker, not a Christian.

But I can vote. And so I will keep voting. In local elections and National elections.

Don’t give up.

Don’t let them win.

We are stronger together.