Like many survivors of trauma, I have always struggled to see myself reaching old age. Long term plans sit in a swampy fog, the shadowy shapes of them barely visible, hard to conceptualise beyond the academic, bullet point description of: New apartment Get married ...
September of 2025 was Suidice Awareness Month, and marked nine months into Trump 2.0. Besides the calendar, what suicidality and the current political disaster have in common is they can steal our joy. It is nearly impossible to feel joy when the national leadership...
Sometimes one of the challenges with asking for help is that we don’t know what will happen or what a place offers. Calling a crisis hotline can be overwhelming. Who will answer? Can they help me? What do I even need? Am I ready to talk about this? What will I have to...
In the past few years, it’s become crystal clear to me that time doesn’t work the same for everyone. Hell, time may not even work the same within the same person in July as it does in October. However, being unable to function on the standard capitalist clock...
“Document the abuse” is common advice given to people who are experiencing sexual violence, intimate partner violence or stalking. Too often, that advice is followed up with “so that you can give evidence to the police.” While some trans/nonbinary survivors do seek...
