be my lover-in-arms 🗡

overall this book reminds me so much of the fantasy books I loved reading as a teenager but made for adults. there's lesbians, witches, goddesses, ghosts, romance, everything you could ask for and there's a pride month sale happening rn you can buy all the books you want 🌈

I have heard so many horror stories from women who were committed to psychiatric hospitals and were then violently assaulted, abused, and harassed by male patients while hospital staff did nothing. The fact that male violence is so common in these hospitals, combined with the fact that trauma from male violence is very often the reason why women are struggling emotionally and committed to these places in the first place, is criminal.

It’s very disturbing to have to live with the knowledge that if I were ever to find myself in the extremely vulnerable position of becoming seriously mentally unwell, I could committed to an institution and forced to cohabitate with violent, aggressive, unstable men with no way to protect myself from them.

#idk bro something about hospital rooms and survivor's guilt?