ethel cain on the election:
"if you voted for trump, i hope that peace never finds you. instead, i hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you've done and who you are as a person."
all i can say is live. you have to live. if you’re trans, queer, a woman, bipoc, disabled, an immigrant: you must live. we have to support each other. we have to be visible and loud if and when we can. and above all else we have to live
As a poet, language matters. The choice to go with “lethal” is so nasty & evil & bothersome. Lethal has intention. Lethal has flair and no remorse. As someone politicized in the post 9/11 anti-war movement, I’m having flashbacks. Lethal is a license to disregard accountability.