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A Powerful Video from Charlottesville about Hate—& 10 Ways we can Fight It.

A Powerful Video from Charlottesville about Hate—& 10 Ways we can Fight It.

I will not look away anymore.

After the violent white supremacists’ rally in Charlottesville this past weekend, that’s what I told myself. I will not look away anymore.

So when I came across this video online today, I forced myself watch it. I want to educate myself. I don’t want to use my ignorance as an excuse for not speaking out anymore.

I’m not going to lie…I wanted to turn it off almost as soon as I started watching. I started asking myself questions to justify looking away.

Caught Between the Badass Women I Love and the Bully on the Playground.

Caught Between the Badass Women I Love and the Bully on the Playground.

It’s been a few weeks now since the election and here is where I’m still struggling.

I am caught between the badass women I love and the big, bad bully on playground.

There are three women—perhaps more—whom I have admired, respected and looked up to as feminist role models in my life for a long, long time.

Women who, it turns out, voted for Trump.