bees !

Deer and cherry blossoms in Nara park, Japan

#by convincing them that they’ll be reviled no matter what they do

#learning how to change involves leaving confort zones

like im not saying ‘never criticise or joke abt men’ or discouraging u from supporting women, but it is categorically harmful to everyone to act like that. as ppl have said, it treats men as inherently bad, thus excusing men for their bad behaviour and discouraging them from working to change. it also demonises and invalidates bi/pan/etc women who date men. it invalidates ppl who have been abused by women, regardless of the victim’s gender. it suggests that all m/f relationships will be toxic and all f/f relationships will be healthy, but wlw can face abuse at the hands of other wlw.

1. The law doesn't care how long your parents and family have been out of your life

2. The law doesn't care about your long term friends or "found family"

If you don't have legal documents that say otherwise, your biological family calls all the shots.

and it can be hard to look at your childhood and go “I was hurt” and also know that the hurt wasn’t deliberate. it’s uniquely painful to not have someone to blame. 

you do not have to excuse the people who hurt you, even if it was unintentional. & acknowledging your own pain does not necessarily entail blaming them for it.

The prosecution called Giroux, the caseworker, as its only witness. In response to questions from Grace’s attorney, she acknowledged she did not know what type of educational disabilities Grace had and did not answer a question about what accommodations those disabilities might require. Her assessment that Grace hadn’t done her schoolwork was based on a comment her mother made to her teacher, which Charisse testified she said in a moment of frustration and was untrue.

Grace’s special education teacher, Tarpeh, could have provided more information and planned to testify but had to leave the hearing to teach a class, according to the prosecutor.

Grace and her mother testified that she was handling her schoolwork more responsibly — and that she had permission to turn in her assignments at her own pace, as long as she finished by the end of the semester. And, Charisse said, Grace was behaving and not causing her any physical harm.

The transition to virtual school had been difficult, Grace testified, but she said she was making progress. “I just needed time to adjust to the schedule that my mom had prepared for me,” she said.

Brennan was unconvinced. Grace’s probation, she told her, was “zero tolerance, for lack of a better term.”

She sent her to detention. Grace was taken out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

me, not even a second later: