Ren Jender is a queer writer-performer and producer whose writing appears weekly at Bitch Flicks and has previously appeared in The Toast, xoJane, Bitch Magazine and Autostraddle. You can follow her on Twitter @renjender.
I don't remember ever seeing the word "gentle" used to describe queer activism in the '90s, anti-war marches in the 2000s, or the Occupy movement in 2011, even though those activists have a much more "gentle" record than anti-choice protesters do.
