Op-Ed in New School's "Public Seminar": For the Love of Humanity, We Can Never Stop Talking about Bernie Bros.
This post was originally published on Public Seminar, and is a response to Jessie Singal’s For The Love Of God Can We Please Stop Talking About “Bernie Bros”?.
In the 2016 election cycle, I worked for Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. Those months are a blur. In October 2015 I was an eager volunteer in a student group at the University of Colorado Boulder; within two months the campaign hired me as their first field organizer in the state. Four months of working 16-hour days, seven days a week with a large, devoted team of volunteers, resulted in Sanders winning the caucus in my territory by 20.2 percentage points. Satisfied (and tired), I left the campaign to finish my Bachelor’s degree in sociology.
And then, inexplicably, I was harassed by a “Bernie Bro.”