how do you tell someone “i’m not ignoring you i’m just disconnected from reality right now and the days are all blurred together and i feel completely apathetic towards everyone/everything around me so it’s really hard for me to maintain a conversation” without saying that
Don’t come at me. This is my lived reality.
Kerala men are often branded as "progressive" but in my experience, that progressiveness is largely performative.
Patriarchy runs deep, especially among those born and brought up in Kerala.
I have never felt comfortable travelling +
The most fulfilling relationships women have are with other women. They show up for us, they are funny, remember birthdays and gifts us on a random Tuesday. They're there during hard times, support our ventures and love us. And sex isn't even on the table. You are the issue
a writer's process:
• get caffeinated
• read over yesterday's writing
• stare at the document
• sprinkle in em dashes
• existential dread
• check twitter
• stare at the document more
• listen to that one song on repeat
• manage to write one sentence
• cry a little
if you only support abortion in instances of rape or incest
you are reinforcing that in order for a woman to have a right to her own body.. someone else must violate it first.