A Twitter thread from Willow Naomi Curry, a fellow with Boston Review Magazine who is figuring out her role in fighting fascism, labor exploitation, and environmental degradation while caring for herself and others. Follow her on Twitter at @willathewisp.

Watching everything that’s happening as a Gen Z-Millennial cusp (born in ‘96), I see what’s happening to youth on college campuses as, on top of everything else, the logical end point of decades of neglect of and vitriol towards children and young adults. 🧵🪡 

I was a preteen when the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting happened, and a 16-year-old high school student when the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre happened. As I tried to adapt to a new normal of routine active shooter drills, and waiting for the day I might be next, 

I watched over and over again as Congress refused to do anything to stop children from being massacred at schools, putting gun lobby money over our lives. 

Later, as a college student, the backlash to trigger warnings and the infamous Coddling of the American Mind essay trivialized our legitimate protests of white nationalists being allowed platforms. 

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