Assorted Notes and Advocacy Stories
Adjusting Harmful Narratives
Response of "this is all we can feasibly do". Often means a tokenized support of "the most I can posture without inconveniencing myself". Plus context of empowerments and disempowerment.
Can also investigate the misuse of the "healthy boundaries" concept to also justify non-action in response to injustice, again because is self-inconvenient.
Sexual Harassment in US Woman's Soccer League
I just knew that he needed to be held accountable one day and that it would happen one day, but it took years for that to happen. ... It's just sad that it took years and years of us forcing people's hand to remove him from his position of power.
Lisa Baird's email back: "We're doing what we can. We'll look into it. We'll get back to you." Nothing.
So when this article was finally released and there's a sigh of relief on our side and just utter shock from the rest of the soccer community -- we had already known everything. We tried to give the league a chance and time again to do the right thing. I wanted so deeply for Lisa Baird to just stand up and say, "I'm sorry. I didn't do enough. I didn't look into enough. I trusted our general counsel, Lisa Levine, too much. We were too understaffed. We didn't have enough people in the room to really make calculated decisions," but she didn't. She said she was shocked and disgusted, and that was surprising because that was a lie.
UK Upskirting Campaign
Upskirting: 7 lessons activist Gina Martin learned during her campaign to make it a criminal offense
People would often put me on the front of newspapers because I was a white woman who wanted to change the law, but I wonder if the narrative would’ve been different if I wasn’t who I was?
“I had to fit campaigning around my full-time job which has seen me working on it from 5am before work and sitting up until 4am"
Civil Rights Movement
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