Ten years ago on June 12, 2016: the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
As a queer 16 yr old at the time, it was the first time I really felt the weight of my identity.
The 49 names of the lives lost that night will ride with me this week at Pocono. 🏳️🌈
She was Lynched. Her name is Juliana Nzita, she went missing and found Lynched at a White church. Sixteen years old, she had a future ahead of her, she was kind and honest, and White people decided that because of her skin color, she didn't deserve life. Stop White supremacists!
ICE pulled a gun on a NY teenager, beat him, and then realized they got the wrong guy. Like other cases targeting citizens, ICE dumped him in a random location far from his home, bloody and injured.