i am whatever i have to be to get by

Openly gay senator and mother Penny Wong emotionally rejecting the plebiscite today. I’m always amazed by her restraint and while I’m disgusted that she has to defend her family like this, I’m so grateful that we have her fighting for us. 

[Side note: to the non-Australians who don’t get the relevance of the “stolen generation” reference, this term refers to a decades-long practice where the Aus government would forcefully remove Aboriginal children from their families to raise in institutions where they were forced to abandon their names, languages and culture to be trained to work for white families within which they were often abused. So yeah, that’s what our opponents are comparing same-sex parenting to. A genocide tactic.]