My authenticity
Is not a performance
Moral clarity is a blessing
And a curse
It’s inconvenient
It’s sad
I wear it on my face
Mask slipping
Falling
Ripped off
Thrown across the room
Here it is
I can’t hold it all
It’s glaringly clear
Your appreciation
Feels hollow and cowardly
Saying so much
And nothing at all
Everything feels wrong
Neutrality is an easy lie
What makes psychotherapy irreducible to supportive language? Sometimes what changes us most is not what is said, but what becomes possible between people when something difficult can finally be held without collapse. A sentence may soothe, or a reflection may feel perfectly accurate, and simulated empathy can offer real relief
Recognition, Exclusion, and the Politics of Care A follow-up to “When Care Becomes Extraction” In my previous essay, I examined how care work can become extractive; this piece turns to how institutions respond when that dynamic is named. In the days following my recent statement on nonprofit labor and LGBTQ+
I’m pausing this DSM series here. Not because the questions are resolved, but because the series has reached a point where continuing would likely produce repetition rather than new insight. What began as an exploration of the DSM as a text and system has become a sustained inquiry into
A Statement on Nonprofit Labor, LGBTQ+ Community Work, and Why Workers Organize The Diversity Center of Santa Cruz County is a nonprofit LGBTQ+ community organization providing crisis support, peer connection, advocacy, education, and programming across the region. For many LGBTQ+ residents, it functions as an essential point of access to
