Writer Harrie Farrow

(via How to Meld Your Life Experiences into an Inspired Novel | writers-colony)

Sad news and a great loss to the bisexual community. 

It is never remotely okay to harass, target, or use as a weapon, anyone, but it is most especially grievous to target the most vulnerable among us. Only the most morally evil, or those they’ve brainwashed with insidious fearmongering, would ever do this. They don’t care how cruelly they harm, nor how many they harm, nor how much the trauma radiates out from those in the crosshairs and into society in general.

Currently, the bullies are gaining ground in ways and at speeds that have many of us wheeling in dizzying disorientation. Those creating nightmares on hell-bound trains do not care how many people email or call in protest, how many chain themselves to government buildings; they don’t care how many take their own lives, nor would they respond to threats or even violence.

Nonetheless, we must explore and use every nonviolent avenue we still have to block them. And by we, I mean all people of good faith and good conscience. We must support the organizations and individuals fighting the legal and legislative battles. We must also, and very importantly so, gather together to be supportive of one another, and most especially, with those on the periphery reaching out to be supportive, caring, and uplifting of those at the center of the hate and oppression. We must incessantly speak up and speak out, not because the perpetrators will listen, but because their cowardly enablers might, and just as importantly, because those being hurt the most need to hear the care and concern, need to know they are not alone, not forgotten, or abandoned.