{"id":115,"date":"2011-02-01T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-02-01T18:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T23:23:05","slug":"fuck-survivor-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/entry\/115","title":{"rendered":"fuck survivor poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>fuck survivor poems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t write survivor poems<br \/>\ni don&#8217;t write about the journey<br \/>\nfrom a survivor to a thriver<br \/>\nfrom a wounded child to a<br \/>\nbad-ass feminist revolutionary<br \/>\nthat is not me most of the time<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t write about healing<br \/>\nabout forgiveness<br \/>\nabout grief and letting go<\/p>\n<p>i don\u2019t write about strength<br \/>\ni don&#8217;t write about the courage to heal<br \/>\nand i never want to hear again<br \/>\noh you are so courageous to speak out<br \/>\nabout your story<br \/>\nthat i haven&#8217;t even began to tell<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t write to inspire<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t write about finding purpose<br \/>\nabout finding jesus<br \/>\nabout finding self-love<\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t write about the truth<br \/>\nbecause truth is too fragile<br \/>\nlike a particle whose location and velocity<br \/>\ncannot be simultaneously observed <\/p>\n<p>i write instead<br \/>\nabout the lack of counseling<br \/>\nthat is actually competent and affordable<\/p>\n<p>i write about the fake sympathy<br \/>\nand the lynch mob that robs me of my rage<br \/>\nand repurposes it to build more prisons<\/p>\n<p>i write about the need for validation<br \/>\neven if our survival involves slashing on the wrist<br \/>\nnot eating overeating and purging alcohol drugs<br \/>\navoiding sex having too much sex<\/p>\n<p>i write, in fact, about survival<br \/>\nthrough not just the abuse from the past<br \/>\nbut survival in the society that doesn\u2019t give a fuck<\/p>\n<p>i don\u2019t write survivor poems<br \/>\nbecause my story is not for your consumption<br \/>\ni don\u2019t write a coherent and compelling narrative<br \/>\nand i don\u2019t exist to demonstrate the resilience of the human spirit<\/p>\n<p>i write survival poems<br \/>\ni survive<\/p>\n<p>31 january 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fuck survivor poems i don&#8217;t write survivor poems i don&#8217;t write about the journey from a survivor to a thriver from a wounded child to a bad-ass feminist revolutionary that is not me most of the time i don&#8217;t write about healing about forgiveness about grief and letting go i don\u2019t write about strength i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eminism.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}