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The Thread: Forged in Fire

To control your story is to own your reality.

How much of gender and identity is about dressing up as the part?

I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.

I’ve seen them in the post office, or stapled to utility poles, fluttering in the evening breeze.

The molecules are valuable even if the plastic we see is not.

What I know and don’t know about men matters. What men know and don’t know about themselves matters more.

Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.

Can a person with some agency ever claim victimization, or are agency and victimhood a binary?

Is there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?

Enchantment. Lying. Are they really so different?

They say justice is blind, and a lady, but it is neither. Justice is a wheel.

Can you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.