Tag: abuse

  • He was a character

    And you cut off bits of our family history like a bad editor who doesn’t understand our back story he’s a character you say oh, he was a character he was the villain and you all refused to look and listen it was all there it was all there you just never fucking cared

  • On survivors

    The thing about being a survivor of abuse is that it never really ends. People will always try and defend the person that did it. They will say that it’s not that big of a deal or that it didn’t happen. Every time someone protects someone who is an abuser, it hurts someone else. Because…

  • Poetry my family will hate #1

    Did you think about me in your secret keeping Do you not speak to me now because it’s hard to watch me unraveling as an adult I should be a secure woman in my thirties with a job able to have a family because I let love in instead, I am by myself is that…

  • The Courts

    I’m more and more convinced that the court system is not made to protect anyone but rich men. If you are a woman, or a person of color, there’s less chance that the courts are going to be used in your favor. The court so frequently gives favor to men over survivors of abuse. Blake…

  • Living with Anxiety

    As an abuse survivor, I have anxiety. In my twenties, I didn’t have the terminology necessary to explain why I felt anxious all of the time. But social media has helped (along with therapy) me understand why I constantly am filled with the overwhelming sense that I have done something wrong, even though I haven’t.…