This election year is shrinking me

Salma Sitara
1 min readJul 30, 2016
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I feel invisible when someone who is not a minority says

Trump and Hillary are the same

Trump isn’t racist/misogynistic/homophobic

I am not black but I can relate to how my black friends feel when someone who is not black says

You are overreacting

Everyone else cares but they don’t make a fuss like you

The same thing happens to white people too

Why are you so angry?

I feel invisible when someone who is not a woman says

That sexism has nothing to do with the demonizing of our first female nominee for President of the United States

That Mr Trump tells it like it is when he calls women dogs and a nice piece of ass

I am not judging people because their politics are different than mine

BUT please

Don’t dismiss my feelings

Don’t put up a wall and pretend that I don’t exist

Don’t invalidate my experience

I am`a woman

I am a minority

I matter

Femina Fera I so feel you. I wrote this awhile ago and never published it but it goes right along with what you are saying

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