bug.yearning

bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”

you have to get worse. you have to be more fucked up. you can't let yourself be assimilated. you're an artifact of creation and you know yourself so well you shaped your form like glass to bend light. you gotta love how fucked up you and your friends are. there are so many of us and we can't wait to meet you. we're so glad you're here.