Tiffany Lee Brown (she/they)

@starluna@mastodon.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Yeah I know! I'm from #Oregon where because of my "mulatto" status I would be given 39 stripes with a whip for daring to live here, were this still the 19th century. Seriously. That was in the founding constitution of Oregon. Crazy crazy stuff. I mean, Oregon isn't exactly "The North" but it is definitely "The West" and it is definitely Whitelandia. And I'm not the greatest ally but I try, esp as a small-town (very majority-white town) newspaper reporter & columnist.

@ymasumac@mstdn.social @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Ayyyup. And let's not forget sexism.

@QasimRashid@mastodon.social From what I can see, it is the Florida Department of Education taking the action, using DeSantis's “Stop WOKE Act” (arrrgggh! I can't even type it without wanting to scream) to do so. This is disgusting and unjust and horrible. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. And now, what do we do with the information? I'm far away from Florida. I guess keep chipping away at my own internalized racism, and the state I live in, which was founded on principles of exclusion and racism?