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Andulka
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if i look back, i am lost
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

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This post just kicked me in my teeth
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by @iamp3e IG
this comment on a tiktok where theyre crying because their dog isnt gonna live forever slaps
[“There is an awful, pervasive myth out there that people who abuse others do so simply because they are bad people—because they are sadistic, or because they enjoy other people’s pain. This is, I think, part of the reason why so many people who have been abusive in the past or present resist the use of the terms “abuse” or “abuser” to describe their behavior. In fact, very, very, very few people who abuse are motivated to do so by sadism.
In my experience as a therapist and community support worker, when people are abusive, it’s usually because they have a reason based in desperation or suffering. Some reasons for abusive behavior I have heard include: “I am isolated and alone, and the only person who keeps me alive is my partner. This is why I can’t let my partner leave me.” “My partner hurts me all the time. I was just hurting them back.” “I am sick, and if I don’t force people to take care of me, then I will be left to die.” “I am suffering, and the only way to relieve the pain is to hurt myself or others.” “I didn’t know that what I was doing was abuse. People always did the same to me. I was just following the script.” “No one will love me unless I make them.”
All of these are powerful, real reasons for abuse—but they are never excuses. There is no reason good enough to excuse abusive behavior. Reasons help us understand abuse, but they do not excuse it. Accepting this is essential to transforming culpability into accountability and turning justice into healing.”]
Kai Cheng Thom, What to Do When You’ve Been Abusive Annotated Edition, from Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories From The Transformative Justice Movement
I'll never forget how in grad school to be a therapist, we had an elective on helping people in abusive situations. At the end of the introduction I asked if we would also be learning how to help abusers to stop their behaviors. The teacher was visibly offended by this, and said she would try to find a "guest speaker" to address that topic as she was not going to address it. She never did.
Almost all of my classmates expressed that they would never (never!) work with an abuse perpetrator. I tried to explore how they thought the abuser would ever learn how to change his behavior, but they were not interested.
Never been so let down by such an otherwise bright and compassionate group of people.
"Evening In Blue"
Mark Grantham, Canadian
acrylic on canvas
i love writing. i also would rather be doing literally anything else
Mind Wanders aka Connor Muskett (Scottish) - A Cold Winters Night, 2020, Photography
Ever since I was a little girl ive always wanted to open the emergency exit door
Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) • dir. Hayao Miyazaki
girls get lonely in the winter and fold into themselves and disappear for an indeterminate amount of time and seek solace in solitude and ponder the universe and reinvent who they are before blooming again in the warmer months and letting the molten glow of a honey-gold sun breathe life into their heart and soul and bones. it’s just the way it goes
snoopy of the day
Alexander Semenov
Embroidered snowy steps>
Every Clown Lost in Every Town
Yoshitomo Nara