Aotearoa New Zealand Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson with a message of love

[Betty K]

https://fb.watch/jvJKCT52lo/

 

This isn't strictly "news", but I found it so uplifting. Marama Davidson, a Maori woman who is Minister for Sexual Violence Prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand, responds to accusations of violence at the Posie Parker protest in Auckland this weekend. Parker, for those who don't know, is one of the most virulently hateful anti-trans activists in Britain. She left Auckland unscathed but doused in tomato juice. Ironically, given the journalist interviewing Marama Davidson is only interested in the so-called violence against Parker, Davidson was knocked down earlier that day at a pedestrian crossing by a member of a motorcycle gang who had come to support Parker. But Davidson doesn't want to speak about that, she wants to speak of her love for trans people. So moving.

[Charlize]

I enjoyed listening to her as well.  I can only hope that the crazy hate we are seeing used politically in the states doesn't spread to or most southern cousins.

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Betty K]

Let's hope, @Charlize. There's a bit of US hate and a bit of UK hate in the mix here, but so far at far less intensity.

[Ivy]

She handled that so well.   Love her.

[Betty K]

@Ivy, didn’t she just? I know how you feel

[Vidanjali]

An angel 😍