reaching toward the light
Trauma causes us to create new ways to behave, to keep ourselves safe, to keep the dark away.
I dream of disappointing my mother
I had a bad dream which was trying to be a good dream, but it was a bad dream because none of it is true.
what did I do this week?
I felt that I was playing favorites and hurting books’ feelings and my thought process got stuck there for a while.
TDOR: our safe spaces become violent
I want to remember my trans siblings today, but instead I have to witness from afar the same thing that always happens to us: violence, death, hatred.
I don’t want to be a big deal on the internet
I want to be able to stand before my gods before I pass into the sunlit lands and not be ashamed of who I was. I want to leave the place better than I found it.
the math of harm
Doing the math of harm doesn’t mean that I get to disconnect myself from my choice once I’ve made it.