Helens
I really, really don't want unicorn frappacinos, tiny dogs, large sunglasses, caramel highlights, and being blatantly, even gleefully, out of touch with politics to be the sum and whole of white girl culture As if it's a badge of honor The faces that launched a thousand memes, with no true concept of our own contributions to the political war raging around us When I say "political" my inner debutante just shudders and swoons and threatens to have a case of the vapors if I don't change the subject right this instant but when I say politics, I mean life I mean Water Land Food Deserts Global Warming Trans-Rights Equal Pay for Equal Work Statutory Limits on Rape When I say I want to talk politics with you, I'm really saying Can we talk about reality, Helen? Can we talk about emotional labor? About the fact that I was sexually harassed on my way here? The Israeli/Palestinian conflict and US funding? Can we talk about your preferred pronoun?