Blogaround

A fluffy kitten standing among broken pieces of a vase and making an incredibly innocent face. Image source.

1. Why “You are loved” & “please reach out” are crappy things to post after someone has died by suicide (posted June 8) [content note: discussion of suicide] "I was in therapy for years and didn’t report symptoms, too, because I honestly didn’t know that other people didn’t experience the world the way I did."

2. It’s Time to Abolish ICE (posted March 9) "ICE as it presently exists is an agency devoted almost solely to cruelly and wantonly breaking up families."

3. Heaven as Secret Sins Film Festival (posted June 4) "The logistics of this are difficult to imagine, since everyone is going to have to sit through all of everyone else’s Secret Sins documentaries. That’s such a long, boring prospect that this almost begins to look like a kind of evangelical doctrine of Purgatory."