Don’t let Facebook tell us who we are, protest the banning for using the word DYKE!
In the days leading up to the annual Pride marches that took place in many North American cities, reports that lesbians were being banned from Facebook began to surface.
A mother of our movement for #LGBT civil rights: #StorméDeLaverie, our #Stonewall shero.#EqualityMarch#Pridepic.twitter.com/y010fJTrO2
Banned from FB for sharing these tweets and referring to myself as a #dyke. Today of all days. #erasurepic.twitter.com/THZWl2mghj
Co-founder of MichFest, the famed annual women’s music festival that was held every August from 1976 to 2015, Lisa Vogel, noted the irony of Facebook’s rainbow “reaction,” paired with their apparent targeting of lesbians.
Over the weekend, more and more women reported being banned — either for posting the word “dyke” in some form, or for simply posting about the bans. Continue reading “Why is Facebook Banning Lesbians for Using the word ‘dyke’?”
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