Cursed Paradise

Bonus:

I shouldn't have to see discourse about a murdered child on my dashboard. I shouldn't have to see people arguing against the idea of a child deserving to be beaten to death. Seeing these posts over and over is destroying me.

Sometimes it feels like, even in the most well-intentioned circumstances, all people are doing is digging up bodies to gawk at and use for their virtue signaling. It's so draining.

This always happens, a queer person isn’t a ‘perfect victim’, it’s okay for them to die. And even if they were perfect victim, it’s still somehow acceptable. This happens to every marginalized person who snaps one day due to abuse, and gets killed.

And the excuses only get more and more stupid. “Oh they were no angel, they poured water on somebody”. Yeah, after being bullied for a year straight every school day. It’s almost like every human has their limit of fucks to give and shit to take.

Something about the media calling it a fight and not a murder, not a hate crime and how MMIWG2S+ are never looked for, never investigated, never seen as victims.

Something about the media portraying them as the aggressor and native youth always being seen as the aggressor, even in death.

Something about the hospital who released them despite going through head trauma and how the medical system ignores native people, and how the medical system was created through experimentation on native people.

Something about trans youth being told to “just leave” and Oklahoma being their homelands.

Something about Oklahoma legislature and two spirit people existing in Oklahoma before Oklahoma existed.