Harriet Jacobs hid in a crawl space for seven years, and Rep. Nicole Collier slept on the Texas state House floor. Black women do not bow.
Texas State Representative Nicole Collier has emerged as a key figure in the state’s ongoing electoral map controversy.
I support Collier and agree that she is being courageous in the face of authoritarianism, but I don’t like the idea of what’s happening to her being flipped into another story about “resistance.”
Rep. Nicole Collier was among the state Democrats who left the state earlier this month to stall the Texas redistricting effort.