I gotta speak to my queer folks here: everything they do, from blaming you for losses to trying to take your rights, they do to make you small. Bigots want to blame you for what they do to you, or what they watch others do. We cannot shrink away. It's live with Pride or die.

And I say this especially keeping in mind how many cisgender people have told me I was catastrophizing while I watch my community suffer. It's not real for them. They're entertaining themselves, speaking to themselves.

Again, for us, we live with Pride or we die.