It’s wild how my life has changed in the past year. Im doing things that felt impossible before while stuff that seemed to come easily in the past now feels out of reach. Strange biz.
Wearing a mask in public at this point feels like youre having one of those dreams where you forgot to put on pants, the way folk be lookin at you funny
online stores love to say “your order is on its way!” then when you go to the tracking number they gave you all of a sudden it’s “can you fucking relax?? we just printed the label..”
After an accidental overdose, a patient told me: “try sleeping on concrete in 20 degree weather sober. See if you can survive a day in my shoes.” I was offering treatment, and that was humbling. Too many ppl who fight the “epidemic” have no idea how much pain homelessness causes.
Recognizing the sovereignty of Native nations solely to acquire reproductive healthcare now that the settler state threatens the bodily autonomy of non-Natives is settler colonialism in practice!
If this was about babies, there would be universal healthcare. Free education. Free daycare. Southern states would be doing all they can to drop the Black maternal mortality rate. This is about power and control
sending love to everybody who is trying to be patient with themselves while living in a world driven by a false sense of urgency. sending love to everybody who is trying to live in the moment while worrying about what happens when they run out of time.