I tried so hard and got so far
I can do my best but that never means it’s going to have been enough to keep the monster under the bed from escaping so that it can’t eat anyone.
born into it
I can still remember eight or nine-year-old me, asking my dad a question that was heavy on my young heart, hoping for an answer that would help me: why do we do things that are wrong?
I want to love Pride month
I want accountability. I want change. I want rainbows that remind us to smile and recall how much we love each other, not rainbows that are held up in defiance against everyone that hates us.
the sound of angry people
Anger is exhausting. Rage burns in us and sometimes we burn too. Rest where you can.
queer people deserve deathcare
We are always grieving someone else, angry at another loss, raging at the injustice that the most vulnerable of us are always facing.
Rocannon’s World, by Ursula K. Le Guin
Choice without accountability is cowardice. It is to lie to yourself and to others.