I want to tell you a story and if you are an lgbtq activist, believe me, you want to read it, because it shows that if you’re being a bitch karma always comes right back to you.
so I used to have this teacher who made some very homo- and transphobic comments from time to time.
so one day I was finally sick of it and decided to write an article about it because I had been writing for our school magazines for years anyways. so I write the article, a comment on intolerance and homophobia at our school in general, not mentioning his name or gender at all. at one point I quoted him saying “let’s not talk about diseases anymore” after we had talked about a trans character. I also mentioned that it hadn’t been the first time such a comment had come out of his mouth and added that I’ve had classes taught by him a few years ago as well.
after the article had been published multiple teachers and also students came up to me and told me how impressed they were and that it was important that somebody spoke about things like these. nobody knew who he was at that time and after the publication he stopped coming to school. he was sick, apparently.
he was sick for weeks and weeks and then spring break happened. the first day after spring break I walk into my school, excited to find out if was still sick, then my principal addresses me. my teacher has gotten an lawyer.
funny thing about that was, the lawyer was what gave him away. after that every single teacher and every student who had been following the situation knew who he was. news like these travel quickly through the corridors and soon the man had ruined his own impression of himself.
since that day the man didn’t dare to grade me properly anymore. a+ started following a+ started following a+ and I couldn’t be more proud of myself for the way I gained them.