"I’ve come to see that the idea that voting is unproductive is inaccurate. It is productive—it legitimizes the very system that gets to determine who gets to be a human being, who gets to be considered family, what gender should be respected etc. It legitimizes a system that legislates how much oppression people will suffer and who gets to suffer it when, and who will be liberated, and who should have “rights” and to what extent. To me, we feed the beast when we agree to play by its rules. So not voting, to me, isn’t really about keeping pure. It is about living out a small form of resistance."
-Nekeisha Alexis-Baker at
Jesus Radicals