I almost forgot we won
The other day a friend asked me (delicately), “What’s it like having a government that hates you?”
I laughed, partly because he assumed I agreed with the premise of his question, and partly because I do.
It’s crushing. It’s been hard since Alberta’s provincial election this year, I won’t lie. Your friends and family and neighbours and fellow shoppers elect a new government, and one of its first priorities is outing queer kids to homophobic parents. Next on the list is setting up a snitch line for reporting un-Albertan activities. And of course, cutting the only actual mechanism everyday Albertans have ever had to see a fraction of the true cost of burning carbon.
What does a queer journalist who loves the planet do?
You think about moving. You think about where you could even move in 2019 that’s more sane than this place. You think about all the people…
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