foraging for my will to live

[troll-star]

*speaks only in half sentences and leaves the rest to telepathy*

[utopians]

nothing like stepping outside while the seasons are changing and suddenly feeling a change in the weather that knocks you back in time by several years

[utopians]

sorry professor I'm going to have to miss class today bc when I walked outside in the morning it was cold and sunny in a very specific way and suddenly I was struck with a nostalgia for years past so vivid and potent that I had to sit down

[dontcry--gethigh]

Fuck yeah I loveeeee having none of my friends hit me up or do and then don’t respond I love it I feel so good

[born222die]

[lindenfern]

[terramantra]

[wlw99]

ig: flutter__studio

[podencos]

[inkipri]

a reminder that when things fall apart into pieces, the pieces also fall into place. same parts new wholes ... we just recognise one before the other!

[notwar8]

[outcastsuggestion]

every time i speak i am reminded why i should not

[sheabutterbitch]

why are u always asking for money!!!!

Because I am a Black clinical therapist in training working for pennies as a graduate / research assistant — and working for FREE supporting the mental and behavioral health of the children in my community. This is something I have to do to obtain enough clinical hours to sit for licensure. When I am not doing that, I am also offering free education and resources to thousand of people online.

Despite that I still maintain a decent lifestyle for myself but unfortunately things do come up and instead of struggling quietly I choose to turn to those who are willing and capable of helping me out of a tough spot. Thank you to those who do, and also thank you to those who don’t — but fuck you for criticizing me when you literally can just scroll past the post. Also, I don’t really ask for money like that...

Anyway, if you’d like to support your not-so-local Black lesbian mental health professional as she fights her way through academia — you can do so by donating to my cash app!

cash.me/$Raevins

[ftl-radio]

[sartreslut]

[crystalmaster333]

[anaryllis]

The analogy  that  has  helped  me  most  is  this:  in  Hurricane  Katrina,  hundreds  of  boat-owners  rescued  people—single  moms,  toddlers,  grand-fathers—stranded in attics, on roofs, in flooded housing projects, hospitals, and school buildings. None of them said, I can’t rescue everyone, therefore  it’s  futile;  therefore  my  efforts  are  flawed  and  worthless,  though  that’s often what people say about more abstract issues in which, nevertheless, lives, places, cultures, species, rights are at stake.

They went out  there  in  fishing  boats  and  rowboats  and  pirogues  and  all kinds  of small craft, some driving from as far as Texas and eluding the au-thorities  to  get  in,  others  refugees  themselves  working  within  the  city.  There  was  bumper-to-bumper  boat-trailer  traffic—the  celebrated Cajun Navy—going toward the city the day after the levees broke. None of those people said, I can’t rescue them all. All of them said, I can rescue someone, and that’s work so meaningful and important I will risk my life and defy the authorities to do it. And they did.

Of course, working for systemic change also matters—the kind of change that might prevent calamities by addressing the climate or the infrastructure or the environmental and economic injustice that put some people in harm’s way in New Orleans in the first place.

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, Rebecca Solnit

[yellowsunbluedove]