activist to organiser

Amanda Riddell
Oct 31, 2024
1 min read

That's what people really want me to do. Like, AMPP is a joke, but for reals I think that the organisers are starting to follow my antics. That's where being trans makes it really hard. I feel like I can't really pull a crowd as well as I could if I was a cisgender politician. So my stunts have always been small, and I've left the bigger stuff to my allies that can handle that. But now I'm getting a yen to openly antagonise political figures. I've enjoyed it a lot.

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