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seahearth ([personal profile] seahearth) wrote2018-12-05 02:43 pm

Rally for Reproductive Rights

Good turnout. Unexpectedly good weather. Me and a friend were discussing whether the wind was oppression to be overcome, or whether it’d shown up in solidarity — it was nice to march in, but made trouble for the speakers once we got to parliament; anyway there was no rain. The organisers were from the more intersectional and radical parts of the Wellington left, so there were speeches about disabled rights, and trans and intersex rights, and beneficiaries’ rights, and sex workers’ rights, and there was a trans inclusion chant, and “Solidarity Forever” and “Nga Iwi E” were sung, and a terf who showed up was identified and dealt with early. This is how I want our rallies to be. But there were no Maori speakers, apparently two people had to cancel. The Pakeha organiser’s replacement spiel about colonisation was not very adequate, being improvised, though it was a lot better than nothing.
A lot of people who I slightly knew there — nice, but towards the end I was getting dysphoric and anxious as I tend to in mass social situations.  Very nice being in a crowd with so many other trans women though. Now I am sitting in a library de-stressing and eating lunch, and soon will go and check out fabrics for a prospective tunic.