...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing. - Margaret Atwood

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.