Tell Me Not In Binary Numbers

do you think grace asked if rocky could come hug him if his state deteriorated past the point of no return on the way to erid?

I think stratt's approach to her health is a combination of a) believing that it absolutely, comprehensively does not matter in the context of her current situation and being willing to put herself through literally any hardship if it can give humanity a better chance and b) viewing herself as a critical piece of equipment that cannot be allowed to malfunction or, god forbid, breakdown under any circumstances. she has the precise numbers on how little sleep she can get, how many meals she can miss, and how much caffeine she can have before it significantly affects how she operates. the psychiatrists she's consulted have all told her that the pressure and the knowledge of her impending prison sentence should probably be making her "actively suicidal" or "completely fucking insane" or smth so if/when it all ever starts to feel a little heavy she makes sure to verbalize her concerns to someone else to "share the burden" (lol. lmao.) so she doesn't snap and turn into emperor caligula or whatever. she's not stupid, she knows she's too important to risk putting herself out-of-commission, so she methodically schedules in the necessary maintenance.

reminder that you cannot call people or things "retarded" around me. we will have a conversation where I explain that I can still tell you the names of 62 people for which I was legally responsible. I will tell you that I loved them

if we're friends, you can call me a faggot. there can be a lot of tenderness in that. I got beat up and bullied and just generally treated like a detestable freak by people who called me that word while they did it. hearing it spoken by a loved voice, with clear affection, can be beautiful. it can feel like understanding, forgiveness, absolution, permission, and a thousand other wonderful things. it can be beautiful.

a lady with a developmental disability once explained to me that she'd overheard some kids calling each other retarded in the mall we'd visited earlier that day. searching for something to say that might comfort her, I explained that they don't know anything about people like her and so they weren't really talking about her, just being ignorant.

please consider writing to Prarieland defendants Autumn Hill and Meagan Morris, they are both trans lesbians incarcerated in men's prisons for protesting an ICE facility