Sublime

“There is no such thing as one-way liberation,

God came out of the closet, and now I can take God anywhere.

Because our culture was built upon and benefits from the control of women.

I will no longer suffer voluntarily or silently or for long.

The Ache keeps me fine, which is another word for half dead.

I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming.

polar bears. We bought polar bear posters and papered Tish’s wall with them. “To remember, Mom—I’ve got to remember.

I feel obnoxious and impolite for taking up so much space in this truck, this world.