Moms for Liberty learned motherhood is a potent force. So too have their opponents. onesarahjones reports
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Montana once looked like a haven to Darcy Saffer, who moved there with her family two decades ago and left behind fundamentalist Christianity to raise her four children outside its strictures. When her eldest child was in eighth grade, they came out as nonbinary and now identifies as trans nonbinary. “That was a whole journey,” Saffer said, adding that she knew few people in the LGBTQ+ community at the time and was on her own path to discovering that she was queer.
In Williamson County, Tennessee, Revida Rahman first began organizing in 2018 against an elementary school’s field trips to local plantations, which, she said, “seemed to gloss over the truth.” Five Black families reached out to the principal to express their concern and to discuss teacher diversity and the disproportionate rates of discipline faced by students of color. That work contributed to the formation of One Willco, a group Rahman co-founded with another local mom, Jennifer Cortez.
There are significant challenges ahead for all of these mothers. In Florida, where Moms for Liberty began, the fight can look especially dire. Betsy Braden’s daughter attends the New College of Florida, which was recently taken over by far-right allies of Governor Ron DeSantis. She and a group of parents, students, and alumni are organizing to counter the takeover, and she recently attended a conservative Leadership Institute summit to learn more about the other side, including Moms for Liberty.
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