be my lover-in-arms 🗡

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?

how bout we bring this bad boy back? as a designer, the black/brown/trans stripes are fuck-ugly and very well intended but misguided.

gilbert baker also added a lavender stripe before his death to represent diversity that’s actually aesthetically well-reasoned:

How come instead of just flying actual BLM and black power stuff alongside the rainbow, we just tossed a brown and black stripe over the rainbow? I'll put the raised fist next to my rainbow happily because, idk, maybe I'm able to value them without swallowing their movement into mine.

Why did nobody add anything for disability advocation? Why didn't anyone add anything to support feminism? Why didn't we add anything to show we stood with the homeless LGB folks? If we could add the trans flag, the BLM colours, and the intersec flag, why didn't we add any of the stuff I mentioned?