it's okay to have experienced assault that sits in a gray area, not want or seek formal recourse, and still grieve for the terrible ways it hurt you and the culture that allows it to happen so casually and so perpetually btw
Indian vegetarianism is less about preference or compassion for animals and more about regressive ideas of purity and disgust toward meat eating. Otherwise, you’d be boycotting dairy and opposing the industrial abuse of cows 🤷♂️
i always forget to journal during the best times of my life so instead of having an archive of memories i'd like to carry with me i just have a book full entries like "today sucked shit" and "burned my eggs"
Being 10 years old and making your debut in epigenetic trauma research all because you noticed your caterpillars still loved you after becoming butterflies is so profound and poetic and impressive. I love children and their incredible hearts and minds!!!!!!
Sexual violence against women does not occur in a vacuum. It thrives in a culture that insists women must live within moral boundaries defined by men, and that when they dare to cross those boundaries, men are entitled to punish them.
Girls and women don’t owe you civility, old man. Clutching pearls and pretending you’re a victim while kids have DIED BY SUICIDE because of your fuck ups and then YOUR POLICE USED PELLET GUNS AND AK47s AND LATHIS ON PROTESTERS.
Fuck. Right. Off.
This is the first resignation of a minister from the Modi regime in the last twelve years. Narendra Modi had been under tremendous pressure due to the protests. But the rot is systemic, a face saving resignation from Pradhan will not fix it. This is not accountability