be soft

don't let the bitterness steal your sweetness

[kosmogrl]

[paper-wounds]

[needlesroom]

Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip

[perrfectly]

Credit belongs to owner x

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice’.

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky’s ‘i am an observer, but not by choice.’

[text id: my fist has always been clenched around the handle of an invisible suitcase. / i am always ready to leave. / there is not a single room in this world where i belong.]

[becherdireinen]

make a wish.

[aestheteasteria]

seeking, yearning, reaching hands

[uzuomaki]

“Soon they would find Glendower, soon they would all be kings. Soon, soon.”

[whale-inthe-sky-deactivated2023]

[coltre]

[metamorphesque]

"I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it's an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it. We all feel alienated because of this continuous violence in the world. We feel alone, but we feel also together. So we resort to poetry as a possibility for survival. However, to say I survived is not so final as to say, for example, I'm alive. We wake up to find that the war survived with us."

Dunya Mikhail, Revisiting Iraq Through The Eyes Of An Exiled Poet

[buffonia]

“Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.”

[paper-wounds]

[vampurrss]

this..

[kosmogrl]

[pisceanpharies]

Prostitution is not a job and never will be. Here’s why. | Nordic Model Now!

By Dana Levy Can prostitution be a normal job? Sex trade apologists claim that ‘sex work is work.’ Some of them say: “We just need a prope

[wannabehistorianandauthor]

people will see this and assume it is coming from some sort of religious or moralistic viewpoint when in reality it comes from the viewpoint of "slavery is bad". Buying human beings, like what pimps and pornagraphers do, is bad actually. It's not empowering, it is dehumanizing to the women involved. The sex industry traffics in women and children. It's evil. Like the post said, everyone knows this on some level. Why do people still put up with it?

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

"oh homeless people are just gonna use your money to buy drugs" and? and?? the government uses my tax money to buy bombs and cops, you think I care if someone in a shitty situation uses money I gave them to feel marginally less shitty? fuck off!

[lancevetrov]

I’m looking at a lot of replies to this and some people really don’t get what this is like.

For context; I’m a recovering poly addict (somebody who was addicted to multiple different substances). For those who are nosy, it was alcohol and opioids.

I was also *technically* homeless for a period. I was lucky to be able to couch surf but there was definitely days where I had no idea where I was going to stay, and constantly had to rely of the kindness of others. I was on welfare at the time, but not much.

I was trying to get sober while couch surfing and holy fucking shit, it’s hard, I don’t think anyone understands how hard it is. I was fortunate to be able to lay on a warm couch and have withdrawals and even then, it was hard. That added stress of knowing that I was going to have to move on to the next kind person in my life was an extra layer to add onto how fucking sick I was. A lot of people don’t understand the physical aspect of drug use. My first night I spent violently shaking and clinging to a toilet bowl, wondering if I was dying.

I cannot even begin to fathom what it is like for those living on the street going through withdrawls. Hungry, cold, sleeping in a tent or on a cardboard box or on the god damn ground. I do not blame a single person for using money I give to avoid that. That is not a situation where it is reasonable to ask people to get sober. It’s just not.

Support homeless addicts, unconditionally, or don’t bother pretending like you care about them. Take the niciesties out the fucking door. If your criteria for helping homeless people includes “sobriety” then you don’t actually care.

[oojamaflip-whatchamacallit]

#“ohh theyre gonna use it on drugs” withdrawal kills people.#get out of your stupid fuckin fourth grader 'drug addicts are evil spooky creeps in trenchcoats who want to hurt you' mindset#getting sober is a monumental task even with a comfortable home and a support system and access to medical services and the ability to#take time off of work#expecting people to go cold turkey while homeless? don't make me laugh man

[anarchistmemedistro]

happy disability pride month is for addicts too