holding area

i hope you all think of me not just as your friend but as your mutual who likes your personal post like way too soon after you posted it

not linking the article because I find the idea of blaming parents for "abandoning their children" when they were murdered by the state because they declined to name others (and therefore sentence those people to death!) so morally abhorrent it beggars belief, but the real takeaway from this article is the ongoing cruelty of imprisonment and, of course, the death penalty, on families, especially children. I am deeply moved by the community of people who came together to care for and protect Michael and Robby, and then the commitment those children made when they grew up to to protecting the children of other persecuted activists.

not linking the article because I find the idea of blaming parents for "abandoning their children" when they were murdered by the state because they declined to name others (and therefore sentence those people to death!) so morally abhorrent it beggars belief, but the real takeaway from this article is the ongoing cruelty of imprisonment and, of course, the death penalty, on families, especially children. I am deeply moved by the community of people who came together to care for and protect Michael and Robby, and then the commitment those children made when they grew up to to protecting the children of other persecuted activists.

Vidgis Hjorth is the only real novelist because everyone who has wronged her in life has felt compelled to write an extremely bad novel in response to her work which only proves the truth of her art