The world needs more queer literature, so I'm glad this exists and was published. Ultimately, I'm disenchanted with The Disenchantment by Celia Bell. Muddy and meandering, it leaves the reader bored and a little confused.
Tag: Domestic Violence
Raging Against Male Privilege in Entitled by Kate Manne
If you’re looking to be angry at the obstacles women face, this is a great book to read. If you have no idea what obstacles women face, please go read this, right now.
Four Years Later; Unpublished, Open Letter to My Dad
I walk through this world as a woman. In 2016, as a woman, a survivor of rape and domestic violence, I was devastated. I love my father more than anything, but he failed me when he voted for Trump. On inauguration day in 2017, I wrote a letter to my dad I never sent. Today, we welcomed hope into the Oval Office in a historic moment, but this letter has lived in my heart for four years. Even though we voted hate out, we have much work to do. Four years later, this letter still holds true for every one of the 74 million men and women who voted for Trump in 2020.
Childhood Trauma in Alan Cummings’ Not My Father’s Son
A beautifully honest dive into heartbreaking memories that helped create an incredible talent in actor Alan Cummings. He revisits the childhood trauma and violence endured from his father with the grace and raw honesty any survivor can relate to.
TANK XING
I took this picture as a joke, but the more I thought about it the analogy seems appropriate. My body is a tank. I've been through so much, and yet I'm still here.