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Miigwetch
Thank you. For being the last memoryof what it once felt like to feel safe to be myself. So I could finally wake up tothe contrast of howcold and calculatedthese arms were – like snakes, constricting, never tight enough to feel safe or a constant tethered choking. You were the last memory I had of…
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Winner
Why did you try to grip reality so hard in the first place?Did you think you could hold it forever? Did you think you were a God or something?You asked me why I was being so cruel as you preparedcrocodile tears when I asked why would you lieabout putting the money I sent you in…
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The Last Bad Man
When I was 24 I got my first apartment by myself.You were paying your father rent to live at his house.You’d come sleep over on your days off and we hadspace to discover ourselves. It repulsed me that he made you pay half your check to live in his house. You paid $450 per month,…
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Decolonizing My Heart
When I began remembering, there was no turning back. I followed the thread back to the seeds you planted at the very beginning during the moments when you noticed I was distracted. You thought I was a subject that could be observed and studied, combed through like a Wikipedia article until mastered. You saw an…
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How Ron Desantis Gained Control of the Legislation and the Courts
In August 2022, Ron Desantis appointed his fourth Florida Supreme Court Justice, a Federalist Society Member named Renatha Francis. Since 2018, Ron Desantis has handpicked four out of the seven Supreme Court Justices moving the scale further and further right with each appointment. As controversial executive decisions are brought before the courts for judgement, many…
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Lee County Inmate Held in Abhorrence; Flooded Jail During Hurricane Ian
[Name of inmate has been left out for fear of retaliation] On September 28th, Lee County was among several counties devastated by Hurricane Ian as it made landfall ‘just shy’ of a Category 5. Meteorologists stressed for days that the biggest threat of this storm was storm surge and flooding, despite the danger of sustained…
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