Self-Organizing Man

Pauline Park, a fierce activist living in NYC, recently won a discrimination case under NYC’s non-discrimination ordinance. She filed under the ordinance because she had been harassed after using the ladies room.

I got hassled, too, before I started hormones. Like Park, people claimed there was a man in the bathroom. Security further claimed they were protecting women.

Now, men assaulting and raping women send women to hospitals and graves. One time is too much.

Women claimed I was a threat to them. An activist/poet pal of mine asked this question: are women feeling unsafe or uncomfortable.

“How do we distinguish between safety and comfort?”