Really want to write something about how weight loss surgery should be the boogeyman of predatory surgeries and not gender-affirming surgeries. Gotta get it out but no platform. Hm.
Every year I try to think of something insightful or empowering to post on the anniversary of the worst night of my life and so many others, but I don’t think anything I could say would send the message better than this photo I took last night at 2am, exactly ten years later.
They destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of this to build strip malls filled out with vape stores and pawn shops. It’s an ongoing project, too—not like the extinction of the passenger pigeon in 1890 or what have you. Sickening beyond belief to bear witness to it.