Well, folks. Here I am, blogging because I’m pretty bored and I’m daydreaming about starting this new quilt. Have I blogged about this quilt yet? Hmm….appears that I mentioned i…
Who Killed Virginia Woolf? CW: suicide; ableism; sexual abuse
In response to Amanda Lauren and XOJane. This is what it means to be triggered by your ableist, thoughtless, cruel writing. This is what happens when people with mental illness and disability internalize ableism. This is how words become deadly.
Content warning: suicide; ableism; mental illness; abuse; caregiver abuse; psychiatric commitment; violence; dead bodies
If you are in suicide crisis, please call the National Suicide Hotline at 1 (800) 273-8255.
If you are a victim of sexual assault in crisis, please call RAINN at 800.656.HOPE (4673).
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The first time it happened, a stranger in Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City called me “the second coming.” He was pointing to a display of tote bags and t-shirts printed with Virginia Woolf’s portrait.
English novelist and critic Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941), 1902. (Photo by George C. Beresford/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
“That could be you,” he said.
He didn’t know I was a writer…
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Modern anti-semitism: born on the right, against the left
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Let’s Call It Kindness
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