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why is there societal pressure that coming out has to be this huge celebration and big deal? no shame on people who want that! but like if people don’t want that, let them be??? them as in me hahahaah sopresa

I’m fucking back on my tumblr bullshit. quarantine made me do it

1010ll

there are so many things I want to fix and make right and just go back in time and do better

I still have open wounds that are yet to ever heal.. not even my own wounds, but ones that I caused.

appalachiananarchist

I hate glamorizing over-working. It’s not healthy. The fact that there are so many people going without sleep, food, personal hygiene (not to mention time for relaxation, personal time, and socialization, which are very necessary for mental health) just to stay afloat is not something to be celebrated or applauded. It’s a problem, not a goal that all good employees should aspire to, or a norm everyone should be expected to perform.

qwertyuiop678

equating productivity with self-worth is a capitalist construct so fuck capitalism and love yourself

npr

Years After Sexual Assault, Survivors Hounded To Pay Bills For The Rape Kit Exam

Six years ago, a newly minted graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was working three part-time jobs and adjusting to life as a non-student. She stopped in for a drink one night at a restaurant in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood, where she got into a conversation with a guy. The next thing she remembers clearly was awakening at home the next morning, aching, covered in bruises, with a swollen lip.

She believed she had been raped and went to the local police station to file a report. The police sent her to a hospital emergency room nearby where, with her permission, a doctor did a medical forensic exam, checking her for injuries and taking evidence from her body and clothes to potentially use in a prosecution case. The exam took hours and made her even more miserable.

Police never made an arrest.

As time passed and the woman tried to move past the assault, she received regular, unwelcome reminders: bills from the hospital and emergency physicians group that treated her.

The physicians group eventually sent her bill to a collection agency, and she started receiving nagging phone calls as well. Now 28 and living near Dallas, she still gets phone calls and letters a couple of times a year ordering her to pay up.

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