Activism

I am very conflict adverse. So I spent a lot of my life keeping very quiet, and almost a decade being afraid of people. But there was an event back in 2009 that made me realise: if I don’t fight for my own rights, I have no right to expect others to do it.

Yesterday I shopped for groceries with my partner, and in the evening we watched “The Danish Girl”. The movie reminded me of how far LGBTQA rights have come. Nobody is threatening to commit me to an asylum or put me through electroconvulsive therapy because of my sexuality. I think about how much I…