Ah, but she whistles, she weeps ( Read more... )

I met someone recently who divulged that they had found my public posts on this page, and that they were concerned about where I am at in my process. This blew me away a little for a couple of reasons- first, that someone would take the time to read even one or two posts here is surprising to me. I forget that it's public and that the information ( Read more... )

It is absolutely crucial to talk often and talk long about the abuse I suffered growing up.  The first steps in REALIZING it was abuse came in opening my mouth and talking about it, and being surprised by the reactions from my friends.  When I saw the reflection of how people should respond to news of abuse, I realized how awful the abuse I ( Read more... )

Fall in ( Read more... )

Growing up ( Read more... )

“Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.”
Thomas Szas ( Read more... )

Growing up, I learned about existence in terms of status quo.  I learned that there was a common denominator that everyone learned the skills to aspire to in order to maintain order and cooperate with each other in the world.  That set of skills was called normalcy ( Read more... )

What do we lose by sticking inside the lines of what dominant knowledge calls civil society ( Read more... )

So look.  Though ( Read more... )

Do Not think that because life is getting better for you, it is getting better for the world.  You are a cisgendered straight-passing white American woman in the midwest (not to mention being completely able-bodied, relatively young and normatively attractive and feminine-presenting), with a well-off white American straight-passing boyfriend who ( Read more... )