Ally? Says Who? by Wombat Cascadia

I found the zine: SO YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLY! A zine on anti-oppression, allyship, and being a less shitty person – online around 2013, and I think it is excellent. Below is the part that has been posted in my quotes collection under its author Wombat Cascadia for many years because reading it gave me an important perspective on being an ally.

An Old Article About Our Son Bill, Recovered

In October 2001 an article titled “Bill Clayton” by Olivier Björksäter-Bleylock was published in DNA, a national gay magazine in Australia. An interview with me was done through email, and was the best one I had ever experienced — and the most intense. Olivier asked about some things that were not in Bill’s story on …

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