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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH

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when your baseline is nihilistic. bare without purpose. to exist.
when your baseline is should I kill myself today. when you wonder is today the day I kill myself?
when you wonder if it will ever dissipate. will it ever dissipate. disappear.
I could just disappear.
but this is real life and nothing just disappears. I’m still here.
there is a difference between a triggered reaction and a violent reaction or response. coregulation means someone other than oneself to help ease and deescalate after a trauma response.
Could you recommend some anti-police literature for a newbie?
This [link] has a really good collection of articles on alternatives to police and how to create a world without police.
Here are some more articles and books:
The police: the case against - Polite Ire
Rebellion against police violence - toward community defense, dual power and revolution - First of May Anarchist Alliance
Stop kidding yourself: the police were created to control working class and poor people - Sam Mitrani
Our Enemies in Blue - Kristian Williams
Kropotkin - Law & Authority
Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete?
Foucault - Discipline and Punish; the Birth of the Prison
Communique from an Ex-Cop - Christopher Dorner
Who Needs Fascists When There Are Police? - Reflections on the Anti-Fascist Mobilization in Portland of August 4
The Thin Blue Line is a Burning Fuse - Why Every Struggle Is Now a Struggle against the Police
Slave Patrols and Civil Servants - A History of Policing in Two Modes
Cameras Everywhere, Safety Nowhere: Why Police Body Cameras Won’t Make Us Safer
Seven Myths About the Police
The Two Faces of Fascism: How Police Are Complicit in the Rise of Fascism
“Dear Citizens, This Is Your Police”: In Praise of the Police-Free Zone in Hamburg
Collusion Between the Police and Alt-Right Is Inevitable
When the Police Get Into Doxxing
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
A post that imagines a series of common public safety concerns and the ways they could be dealt with without police
Police and Thieves: Insurgency, Control, Crime
We Want a World Without Police. These Organizers Are Charting the Way
More Trainings Are Not the Answer to Police Violence Against Disabled People
The Myth of State Neutrality
Against the Logic of the Guillotine - Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too
The Anarchy Police: Militant Anti-Fascism as Alternative Policing Practice
Incarcerated Anti-Fascists Report Targeted Beatings by Guards
Good post with links about prison abolitionism
Another good post with links about police and prison abolitionism, and transformative justice
The #coronavirus and the police
The other death toll from the coronavirus pandemic - The police are harassing, beating and killing people while enforcing COVID-19 lockdowns across the world.
Unrest in Beaubreuil, France: “We are at war”… against the police!
If you are someone who likes to watch a lot of cop shows, I want you to ask yourself a few questions.
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate Internal Affairs? Isn’t the job of Internal Affairs to root out the “bad cops”? Isn’t their job to make sure police follow the rules? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic?
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, hate defense attorneys? Isn’t the defense attorney’s job to protect the rights of all citizens? Isn’t it their job to make sure police follow the law? Isn’t it their job to make sure everyone is treated fairly under the system? Why is that presented as inherently evil or antagonistic?
Why do all TV cops, even the good ones, get upset when citizens invoke their constitutional rights? Don’t those rights exist to ensure all citizens are treated fairly? Don’t they exist to ensure innocent people are not wrongfully incriminated? Why are citizens who invoke their rights presented as dishonest, untrustworthy, or antagonistic?
To be clear, I’ve watched Brooklyn 99 and enjoyed it. I was watching Elementary the other day. But even when I watch shows I like, I make a mental note every time a cop lies, breaks the law, subverts someone’s basic rights, or just generally acts like an asshole to the people the are meant to serve and protect.
How often are they called out on their behavior? How often are they punished for it? How often is it reinforced as correct by the narrative?
When I tell people to be critical of the media they consume that is what I mean. Not simply calling it terrible and moving on, but actually engaging thoughtfully, asking questions, and forming conclusions about what that media is trying to say to you. Then decide whether you want to keep listening, or if it will be better for you in the long run to move on.
when i think about never seeing you again
the wind knocks out of my chest.
kinda like when i was a child
being driven through a tunnel
a huge gulp of air in
to hold as long as
possible.
swallowing
that feeling of being trapped
suffocating
but consciously trying
to hold on
just a little bit longer
until i see sky again.
when i think of never seeing you again
it feels like the car ran out of gas,
stuck in the tunnel
with no tow in sight
why am i losing air over you,
when there isn’t any left.
she went quietly
after isolation killed
her alone
stopped breathing
then gone.
i’m sorry i never
told you how valuable i was
before you went away.
i go away sometimes when it feels like too much
but i always come back
he doesn’t even wait, he’s always there
even if i have to leave for a little bit.
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they capitalized the B in Black but not the w in white. I stan
Ben and jerry have BEEN saying this !!!!!!
only one yt
4 me
& that’s dmosey
ty dear yt
4 always being tru
despite how i be
u always come thru
i’m not easy 2 luv,
but even harder
2 avoid
but w/evs,
it’s not like
u wud have hid.
rising up to a challenged
convinced there’s a gem.
dmosey
u r there
even when i’m not
bc u do
wut i can’t.
the complexities
of gray tones
i am blind to
in a
split! ahhh
as if it only ever
has
& only ever will
be.
h o l d
𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨
o n e
place, moment, thing
until the dark abyss
lightens its load
just a little bit
with hopes that
slivers of rest
can eventually
replenish
the well
of life
to live
life well
& know
we r 𝐚𝐥𝐥 worthy
- 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝟺 𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘯
i don’t remember
the scent of
my father
until i step on the back
of the bus and
some stranger is
wearing his cologne.
i do a double
take to make sure
they are not him.
but they are not.
him, he was a bus driver,
he would be up front.
- i forget until i remember, though i think of you everyday.
trauma is a structure, not a feeling.
what’s it like to not think of dying every day?
when is the last time you (actively) loved yourself? what does loving yourself look like?
- letting myself feel my emotions but placing it in a container (my eyes suffer if they leak endlessly) - walking in my neighbourhood despite the ever changing expansion and displacement of those barely getting by - stretching - deep breathing - hot salt bath with candles, hydration, snacks - writing - creating - holding ice - drinking water throughout the day - laughing over memes - eating whole, real foods - practicing active gratitude - going to a meeting - singing - acknowledging, admitting the struggles and trepidation i’ve overcome in my life and on a daily basis - staying sober for me as an act of radical selflove - meditating - taking my medication when needed and on time - service for others, mutual aid, sharing space - focusing on the present moment - spending less time on social media - forgetting loss
i don’t remember what it feels like to not have physical pain.
i can never answer lickert surveys because i wonder even if within a given time frame to reflect on, how does it show you past from present. scale of 1-10 how much pain are you in? define your terms.
what is pain when you live with it at every moment? forgetting my lost able body to the point of gaslighting myself. did i ever have the ability to do as i pleased? how did i get here? am i imprisoned by the epigenetics of intergenerational trauma forever? why do i continue to bother?
when the daily check-in makes me realize it always feels too much because i resist the idea that i must accept the pain. am i at a 1 because i have felt worse than the daily, or am i at a 10 because it’s a persisting distain to admit my reality.
acceptance is serenity.