1. I am sick to death of being used. National queer orgs--shiny and corporate, and grassroots, alike--like to trot out my part of the country when there is a point to be made, or a media shitstorm to be in the middle of. Fuck you. Shame on you. How dare you exploit us to develop campaign strategies that encompass San Francisco, New York, DC, and maybe Chicago on a real boundary-pushing day? If you care about Kansas, do some fucking work in and for Kansas. 'Cause I know who's in the trenches every day here, and who isn't, and it is not. Fucking. You. 2. I know a lot of y'all don't have any money to spare. This is not for you. ...and I know a *lot* of y'all sink a lot of discretionary income into the iDevices you use to access Tumblr. You want to make a difference? Fuck your reblogs. Write a goddamned check. You can start here: Kansas Equality Coalition www.kansasequalitycoalition.org Kansas State Transgender Education Project www.k-step.org Wichita Pride www.wichitapride.com That Gay Group www.wichita.edu/tgg Wichita First Metropolitan Community Church www.mccwichita.com (Also, here is a PSA for those of you not from Kansas: it might seem like a great idea to prioritize Kansas City in your efforts. What could be more Kansas-y than Kansas City, right? Here's what's up: Kansas City is a major metropolitan area sprawling across the boundary of Kansas and Missouri. They have resources. They don't have *enough* resources; but they don't have shit-nothing like the rest of the state. Same does not go for Lawrence or Manhattan, but definitely *does* go for their university student groups. Now you know.) 3. If you can access Tumblr, you can presumably also access email and/or some kinda internet telephone, yes? Check this out: Reps who voted yes (that's bad) are here: http://kansasequalitycoalition.org/viewevent.php?e=4981&c=0 Reps who voted no (that's good) are here: http://kansasequalitycoalition.org/viewevent.php?e=4980&c=0 Doesn't cost a thing to send an email. Or fifty. 4. Yeah, I know, blah blah media sensationalism, blah blah going to strip social services from all gay Kansans. Now, would you like to read the informed opinion of our highly effective, extraordinarily thoroughly researched, albeit shoestring budget LGBT lobbying org on the bill? http://kansasequalitycoalition.org/viewevent.php?e=4972 BAM. Now you can. 5. Guess what? It's really shitty being queer in Kansas. It was shitty yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that. Our best-informed lobbyists don't think this bill is going to make it particularly shittier, though; it's just going to make the existing shit stick longer. So okay. Kansas legislators are gigantic, queer-hating, woman-hating, POC-hating, non-Evangelical-Christian-hating assholes. What the fuck else is new? If you care, do something actual. If you don't, quit fucking using us for emotional activist jack-off material. I don't wanna hear about it. The Republicans and the Christian fundamentalists and the queer-baiting, queer-hating, bigoted fuckweasels of all kinds have a lot of traction here. You know why? Because they value the *shit* outta this place. Because they *show up* here. Because they send money to the Phelpses, and the Brownback campaign, and the anti-abortion protesters. They use it, sure--and they know they *need* it. I have never. Fucking. Once. Heard my state mentioned at a national queer conference, or organizing meeting, or seminar, as anything other than a punchline. Try the fuck harder.
