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Benjamin Kelly, the district secretary for Representative Shawn Harrison, reportedly liked a tweet that referred to González as a “brown bald lesbian girl.” (Kelly has since been fired.)

González is not deterred. She’s taking calls from Demi Lovato; speaking with Anderson Cooper on live television. Overnight, she’s turned into the face of gun control, and her being a brown bald bisexual woman is not a deficit, as some might decide–instead, an incredible talisman that seems to indicate the kind of power those of us deemed powerless truly have. That despite the Trumps of the world telling minorities how worthless we are, over and over again; that QPOCs and women are not even low priority but instead targets, we will not recoil while sheepishly raising white flags.

Emma González is the portrait of empowerment, and she’s inspiring a movement that includes us all; one that is not asking for, but demanding a safety that is no longer promised or assured by current administration. And as she continues her advocacy into the March For Our Lives on March 24, it appears the NRA might have finally mets its match in a teenage girl.

I also get this question a lot and it’s so weird to me. Why does anyone choose not to come out? Because they’re happy retaining some privacy, because they can’t predict people’s responses and it’s scary, because they don’t want to forever be That Gay Couple On Youtube, because they might not be out to every single person in their family or personal life, because they’re afraid they’ll lose professional opportunities, because they don’t want to further the levels of audience intrusion, because they don’t want the pressure of a breakup countdown on their relationship, because they just… don’t want to.

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