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You say I am too young.
Too young to be a feminist.
Too young to know my own sexuality.
Too young to be depressed.
Too young to hate.
Too young to protest.
Too young to be an activist.
Too young.
Too stupid.
Too naive.
And you are right.
I am too young.
Too young to be scared of finding me or my LGBTQ friends killed, abandoned, or sent off to a conversion camp because all they wanted was love and acceptance but instead they found hate and rejection because they were “disgusting sinners” who were just “confused”.
Too young to be sobbing with such loss and grief over people who were killed and died too young because no one would help them because all of their cries were “fake” because they were too young to know “real” pain.
Too young to be scarred, bruised, bloody, and beaten by a war I did not start or choose to fight in.
Too young to be surrounded by people telling me and others what gender is right and wrong, and what race is right and wrong.
Too young to be scared to go on a walk alone. Too young to be feeling the need to cover up more than necessary and walk across a street when a man is walking on the same side as me.
You say I am too young.
And you are not wrong.
I am too young.
Too young for
H O M O P H O B I A
R A C I S M
S E X I S M
R A P E
S E L F H A R M
S U I C I D E
G U N V I O L E N C E
and
S C H O O L S H O O T I N G S
To be normal to me
I should not be so desensitized by this violent reality.
So yes, I am too young.
But you cannot blame me for my hyper awareness of our reality.
My generation was born with information at our fingertips
And we have been told to sit still and be quiet
Because the adults were talking
But you had your chance
It is now our turn to speak
And our turn to fight
Because our rage is pure fire
And with every ragged breath we take
Our lungs get more shredded by all of the hate and misery
Gen Z is the gayest, most trans, most racially diverse, most atheist generation of all time
And we are going to fucking change the world.
You will embrace change or die on the wrong side of history.