Year: 2025
Never Enough
For some, you will never quite be enough: “Too smart, too bold, too tough, Too thin, too flat, too nice, too meek, Too loud, too wild, too flawed, too weak.” Like leeches, their words drain the joy from your soul, Stripping self-love, leaving you unwhole. “To fix the body, to Read more
Generational Entitlement: On the Ethical Necessity of Telling Men to STFU
It started with a ten-second reel of Sabrina Carpenter dancing, with text across the video that read: “I was definitely born in the right generation. I love telling men to “STFU.” I laughed. I reposted it. Then I went back to working on my MFA application. But somewhere between crafting Read more
Listening
“Eighty years old and still looking good,” She says to me every time I come to volunteer. I smile. She smiles back. Five minutes pass. “Eighty years old and still looking good,” She says. Again. I smirk. Eyes twinkle Lightly. A chuckle. Ten minutes pass. I circle around the room, Read more
Remission and relapse.
Remission & Relapse Historians tend to refer to continuity and change, the mainstay interpretations of what has happened and what it means (at least at A-Level). I wonder if Doctors (of mental illnesses) are as concerned with continuity and change, their obsession with relapse and remission being an inevitable legacy Read more
Sleepwalking Through the Fire
Maddie woke up around 10 am in a panic. She had totally overslept, and she was an hour late to sign on for work. She stumbled over to her laptop and quickly surveyed her emails and chats, figuring everyone on her team was probably looking for her and wondering where Read more
Room Fifteen
*Trigger Warning Swinging from a beam, I shudder, not in fear or fright, but glee, that I have the power (even in my state) to rub myself clean. On the cusp of my neck snapping, tugging as the coarse grains of the noose tighten further, against my pallid, exposed neck, Read more