I woke before the sun rose today, my heart felt the intense weight of all the moments that the 25th of April marks, before my body had even begun to stir. For all the Blakfellas who were sent to fight FOR an institution that killed our people,
for all the parents who never got to see their babies return home from war,
For my beautiful cousin Lauren, who will forever feel the intense weight of loss on this day, and every day, of her beautiful boy Deklan.
Content warning: I use a word that many people find confronting, that word is cripple. I identify as a crippled person, and I use it in the spirit of reclaiming it. Blessed are the crippled kids, Thos
I want to be asleep and I've been trying to get there I close my eyes and wait but the chance of REM seems rare Another hour passes and I'm still watching Blanche go on dates It seems yet another epis
As I am illuminated by the spotlight of a screen in my arms I hold my love my treasured a child being I feel them breathing in safety and the comfort of being held by their mama their nurturer the con