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A wound many complex trauma survivors share is never knowing when our relationships will turn cold, belittling, or unsafe. If our recovery is going to be realistic & sustainable, it's real important we not recreate that uncertainty in our relationship w/ ourselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

A fundraiser to keep the Black-owned Semicolon Bookstore alive, with the addition of a coffee shop, has surpassed its goal of $25,000. thetriibe.com/2025/02/semi...

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Setting goals & managing our time isn't letting someone else control us. It's refusing to let our autopilot, which was programmed by our bullies, abusers, & trauma, trick us into wasting today kicking our own ass w/ shame & self-sabotage. Because f*ck that, you know?

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 6 days ago • 1875 comments

Dear black people, please don’t coon out over $5,000.

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

Your partner’s emotions aren’t your responsibility, but you should still consider their feelings. That doesn’t mean avoiding their discomfort at the expense of your own needs/boundaries, but factoring them into your decision-making is just part of being a decent, respectful, and responsible human.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 10 days ago • 851 comments

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 9 days ago • 816 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 9 days ago • 1924 comments

That’s more like it.

submitted 11 days ago • 1165 comments

heavily tattooed people are so sexy I can’t look directly at them it’s like looking at the sun

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

It ain’t shit funny about low income families getting their SNAP/Medicaid benefits cut…

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Capitalism has poisoned some of yall real bad. We should not work as hard as we do. Other countries do not live like us. They are not spending as much money as we are. They work less and live longer. We are like this because of capitalism. And you being proud you have to work to survive is a symptom

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I think I’m about a 4. Other people think I’m around a 9. 😂

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

A group called "Puppygirl Hacker Polycule" has leaked thousands of police training manuals from departments across America. Finally, a polycule being used for the revolution! Polyamory as praxis, collective action as love in motion! ✊🏾 www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I AM A GODDESS. I MAKE THE MOUNTAINS QUAKE. FEAR MY POW— steps in water with my sock collapses to the floor in a choked sob and won’t stop twitching 😭

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

I love when Black women

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

@random-chicagoan.bsky.social Bruh 💀

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

All these cancer awareness and research ads hit weird with the government dismantling funding of such things

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

You can’t win SO WIN, you can’t have breast cancer SO HAVE BREAST CANCER (my understanding of the SuperBowl ads aimed at women)

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

submitted 18 days ago • 547 comments

Hard to knock cancer out without academic medical centers

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pro-israel propaganda during the superbowl lmfao yeah fuck america to the highest degree

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

All these women and Black people performing before the game and in front of a guy who's steadfastly against it.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

If you're a white person telling Black people their explanations of racism are wrong, don't. You're a jackass who knows nothing about what you're saying because you're white. You can't possibly understand. To school Black people on racism is really arrogant white privilege. RACIST.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Everything !! #blacksky

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

Winters are hard. I have nowhere to go.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Close, we're playing NOSFERATU

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Are you kidding me? I glance at a headline that says our stupid Pres blames DEI for the plane crash? This one is really pissing me off…

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

It’s almost time to crash Ticketmaster and fight for Nine Inch Nails tickets. May the odds be ever in my favor 🫡

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The Department of Veterans Affairs has CANCELLED SUICIDE PREVENTION TRAINING because it includes considerations for the LGBTQ+ community. Veterans suicide.

submitted 30 days ago • 1098 comments

If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

submitted 30 days ago • 230 comments

Sears Tower and Gulf of Mexico forever

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

See how hating black people fucks everybody lmaoooo

submitted 30 days ago • 13 comments

With Illinois reporting that it can't access its federal #Medicaid funding accounts this morning, reminder that states have a statutory entitlement to their federal Medicaid funding, on top of the fact that freezing federal funding is unconstitutional and also violates the Impoundment Control Act.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at [email protected]. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.

submitted 30 days ago • 179 comments

I have never once met a trauma survivor who "wanted" to "play the victim card." Every survivor I've ever met would happily burn their "victim card" & never think about it again. Trauma is about conditioning we have to systematically undo, not a "mindset" we "choose."

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Practice non-compliance. If it isn't your habit, start small. Try jaywalking. Park a little weird. Only read your email once a day. Get slow. Prioritize taking care of each other above everything else. The machine is meaningless. We are all that matters.

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

Life is a highway* *privatized into a toll road

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

USA: We are getting rid of all government grants. Goodbye, the arts. Get lost, cancer research Other Countries: We are pleased to add $20 million to the Indie Pinball Game Fund

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

I'm awake.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I wish I would have had a 40th birthday party. Birthdays are so important to me. That will probably be something that gets me down forever…

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Be selective about what you reveal or describe about your own experience for YOUR reasons-- not to protect an abuser. You don't "owe" anyone your story-- but you don't "owe" anyone your silence, either. Make those decisions based on YOUR safety, stability, & goals-- not theirs.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

everything in the news seems so insane and bad and i don't know that any of my robust army of coping mechanisms are strong enough for this shit

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments