Cosplaying radicals, real radicals and what happened to Stacey Monroe. Some people in Dallas are just radical for a giggle.
A story which illustrates the reality of Dallas being full of posers.
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Stacey Monroe got fired for her activism. Donate.
She needs to eat and pay rent. I donated $300 to her funding since I don’t want to see activists fighting for the LGBT destroyed. But more so because I detest the fake radical cosplayers that pass themselves off as radicals in Dallas.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-stacey-fired-for-palestine-solidarity
She could use your help.
For those of you who don’t know what cosplay is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay
Background story.
Stacey Monroe is fired from her position as director of the Trans Empowerment Coalition. The Dallas Voice adopted a somewhat obscuring headline.
This is the subheading for the article.
Owenwood says Stacey Monroe lost her TEC salary because she ignored warnings regarding protests; Monroe says protesting is part of the mission.
An LGBT activist protesting! Oh the horror! What will the establishment think? [I am being satirical here.]
https://dallasvoice.com/divided-over-protests/
The issue the board gave was her being arrested, but I think that the story and the Owenwood people obscure the reasons why she was fired. Owenwood is a project of the White Rock United Methodist Church.
This is the article about her arrest.
These are previous articles about her supporting the LGBT at the Lewisville ISD.
https://dallasvoice.com/teachers-supporters-rally-at-lisd-board-meeting/
Her fighting for trans made national news.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article82929332.html
There are many other articles. The above articles are saved at the Internet Archive also.
Internet Archive Links for Dallas Voice articles.
I am going to put them right here so even if you haven’t bothered to learn how to use the Internet Archive you can find the previous Dallas Voice articles easily, eaven if they disappear from the Dallas Voice website.
They are in the order that they were given in the previous section.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240402002134/https://dallasvoice.com/divided-over-protests/
Instructions on how to use the Internet Archive.
Stacey Monroe’s online presence
https://www.facebook.com/TheStaceyMonroe
https://twitter.com/TheStaceyMonroe
https://www.instagram.com/TheStaceyMonroe
https://www.tiktok.com/@thestaceymonroe
Radicalism and cosplaying radicalism.
I never make any claim that I am radical. I think it is because I don’t want to be a poseur. That is a person who pretends to be what they aren’t. If some people feel they are actually radical, that is their business, and maybe they are.
I find in Dallas that there are a great many individuals who voice a great many opinions in which they are supposedly the radical cutting edge, but in reality it is just posturing and of little substance and lots of Facebook posts.
When I was growing up in the 1960s I had a great aunt who was outspoken about the civil rights movement. I was impressed. My mother cautioned me, “Aunt L*** is liberal for a giggle,” she advised me, and later when I came out an planned to visit her with my lover in the 1970s, I found that out.
Lots of Dallasites are radical for a giggle.
Stacey Monroe was a radical in my opinion, and I speculate that she though that the people on the Trans Empowerment Coaltions were also, or weren’t anti-radical.
Turns out that they were cosplaying and not serious. The people at the Owenwood group and others make sad, sad faces and say sad, sad things.
It is a project of the White Rock United Methodist Church.
I had to find the Trans Empowerment Coalition on the Owenwood webpage by going into the Internet Archive a ways back. This is an archiving that occured on 15/11/2022 in the morning.
Notice the word “revolutionary” used above the link to the Trans Empowerment Coalition regarding visiblity. Just don’t be visible at the wrong places it seems.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221115054204/https://www.owenwood.org/
This is the Trans Empowerment coalition at the Owenwood website.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221115045553/https://www.owenwood.org/trans-empowerment-coalition
You might go to a Dallas church and you might hear many things said. The people saying these things might sound sincere and they themselves might feel they are sincere, however, when the first wind blows you will find that they aren’t radical and that they have rationalizations to preserve their cosplaying as radicals, that is convince themselve that they are radicals, but they aren’t.
If you want to cosplay being radical, I do recommend the United Methodist Churches as well as the Unitarian Churches.
Final Note
I might seem to be obnoxious writing this way, but illusions that deceive us, are illusions that misdirect us and lead us to fail in defending our communities.
Those cosplaying radicalism undermine our efforts.
Also, if I am obnoxious, I am obnoxious fighting for us. I don’t care about your whining.
