content warning
insight
mention of sexual / emotional violence

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series: listening to ancestors
blameworkdo

a caveat

there are degrees of violence

i once had no self worth / love / protection

blame is a tool easily finding

a caveat

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blame is the stuff from which the wheel of harm is made. As soon as we reach for it, the wheel turns

I am a woman, and I have hurt every many men in my life through emotional violence.
I am a man, and i have hurt every many women in my life through sexual violence.
I am both, and I have hurt myself in all these ways.
I am neither, and I have been hurt in all these ways.
I am everything, and in healing myself I have seen the root of this violence.

I have never liked pencils because I do not like to erase my mistakes. I am not afraid to show evidence of my failures [ on the page at least ] .

—2/14/25