Anonymous asked: I'm so stressed right now because my family is making me go to a celebrate Trump party and I have to act like the perfect straight conservative daughter that I'm not and I dont know how I'm going to live with this and I have zero choice in the matter
Oh, sweetheart. Oh, baby, I wish to God I could give you a hug and promise I could protect you from this whole disaster. But I can’t, and I wish I could tell you something that would magically make it easier to get through this, but I can’t do that either.
So here’s this. You are not wrong in your beliefs. You are not wrong in your identity. Your parents might not know, or they might not agree, or they might even believe they can ‘fix’ you, but you don’t need to be fixed, I promise you. You are not alone, facing this, even if it might feel otherwise.
And that’s the critical part, I think. The power in an administration like Trump’s comes from making people like you, and like me, people who stand in a minority, feel alone. It comes from making us believe that we are facing an unstoppable onrushing tide, with no one to help us or hold us up when we falter, because it is so easy to trample over a single frightened person. And it is so easy, when you’re that single frightened person, to crumple.
But you’re not alone, sweetheart. You’re not. Our greatest strength for the next four years is our unity. We stand together, hand in hand, and we do not abandon one another to the tide, we work together to pile up sandbags against it. So you’ll live through this, sweetheart. I promise. With me, and with hundreds of thousands of others around the world. We won’t let you be swept away.
Take a hand, sweetheart, and do not go gentle into that good night.
