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You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Says Offensive Stuff and You Aren't Sure How to Deal
Sometimes we love people who don’t share our same value systems or knowledge sets. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t love them, but it can mean we need to work hard to make sure we aren’t compromising our own values just to placate them.
Sharing this just because it has some great stuff about allyship, especially cis allyship to trans folks. Also good stuff about how to be an ally when the people you’re allied with aren’t around, which is something that I’ve dealt with in my new grad school sitch.
