“I am not a survivor. And I don’t know if I’ll ever be.”
Author: Ashleigh Shackelford
When People Who Harm Don’t Consent to Transformative Justice
“Transformative justice is not a cage for us to die in.”
You Could Never Misgender Me
When you use the wrong pronoun, you’ve crossed my boundary but you could never misgender me.
Nice Guys Kill to Stay Nice: On the Weaponizing of Kindness and Why ‘Perfect Abusers’ Don’t Exist
“I don’t want to be like the other guys you met,” he said.
Trauma is Not Our Name: On the Epitaphs and Eulogies of Black Life
This is only slightly a review of Queen & Slim, and more-so a take on the politics of visibility and how many of us will die to be seen not knowing that being seen is, too, death.
Fat Is Not a Bad Word
“For me, fat is a way of saying f*ck you.”