As a veteran, a trans woman, and a socialist, Paige Kreisman holds no illusions about the injustices of interpersonal bigotry or structural oppression; she’s seen more than her fair share of both.
, Kreisman says she was subjected to sexual harassment and death threats from her fellow soldiers. “The increasing escalation of harassment and violence and policies of treating me and other trans service members as second-class soldiers drove me to the point where I had to do some introspection and realize, what am I even sitting around waiting for?” she recalled.
Kreisman says she tore the flag off of her uniform in protest — “it was getting heavy carrying it around on my right shoulder all the time” — and passively resisted all orders. “Peacefully, I didn’t make a scene, I just said no. And that didn’t last long, of course.” She says she was forced into the Army’s mental health detainment unit almost immediately.
District 42, demographically, is deeply progressive, but Kreisman argues that Oregon politics are characterized by a disconnect between the leftist electorate and the pro-corporate power structures that dominate the state legislature. As she put it: “We live in a corporate oligarchy. That’s what our state really is.” Oregon is one of only five states that allow unlimited corporate campaign contributions.
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