A Failure to Listen
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brynn-tannehill/a-failure-to-listen_b_7853572.html
The Huffington Post/by Brynn Tannehill 07/24/2015
"This past week I was at the Netroots Nation 2015 conference. In the past, this has been one of my favorite progressive events, full of both energy and positivity. This year the theme was intersectionality within the LGBT movement.
I am forced to report that we are failing at it. Horribly.
This realization started with the second panel I attended, titled "We Are One: Overcoming the Shared Opposition of the LGBT and Reproductive Rights Movement." The basics of where both movements stand are easy to see: LGBT rights are moving steadily forward, and reproductive rights are in rapid decline. The group of reproductive rights advocates on stage wasn't so much a panel, as a plea for help ."