Show Marginalized Groups That You’re Willing to Temporarily Hold Their Documents Together by Wearing a Paperclip

It’s a scary time to be a woman, minority, immigrant, or member of Ivanka Trump’s design team in America. If you’re one of the good people of privilege, show vulnerable people that you’re willing to fasten their documents together non-permanently by wearing a paperclip in public.

Foreigners living in the US on valid visas are currently facing an uncertain future. Can they risk going home to visit their loved ones? Will the Department of Homeland Security knock on their doors in the dead of night and drag them to overcrowded detention centers? Do they have to spend all their weekends at protests their white friends are guilting them into attending? Like, they’re totally down for some protests, but does Jennifer really need to drag them to every single event with the word “resist” in it? And some of them seem less like political movements and more like a dude who used to play guitar subjecting a bar to acoustic covers of Beyonce “to benefit refugees”? Show that you’re an ally willing to shoulder some of the burden, by helping them keep all of their visa paperwork together in a way that also allows you to pull individual pages out and/or reorder them without tearing the page by attaching a visible paperclip to your body.

The paperclip has long been a symbol of bringing loose sheets of paper together without making any longterm commitments. By wearing a paperclip, you’re saying, “I’m here to help, but I have yoga at 6.” It’s easy to be afraid in light of all that’s going on. But it’s better to be strong, brave, and together for the short haul.