We Are Survivors. [View all]

[TygrBright]

I survived being sexually assaulted.

I survive the assumption, every day, by a patriarchal culture, that my value as a human being is less than the value of someone with a penis.

I survive a system rigged to pay me less, disregard my autonomy, snatch control of my body from me.

I can say this, from my experience:

The judicial system of the United States of America WILL survive having an entitled, vindictive, childish patriarchal asshole foisted into its highest level.

America, our institutions, our ideals, our will to freedom and self-governance, our beliefs in equity and the ability of humanity to become better than our worst instincts, is stronger than the vicious, mediocre, greedy assholes who are battering it from within.

As I have experienced damage, and it has affected my life in painful ways, America experiences damage, and is painfully affected.

This is not damage that heals quickly, or without deep pain.

But I survived, and I am stronger for that survival. As I live, and learn, and will to be better than the fear and the self-doubt and the pain I've embraced as my allotment, America will do also.

I am not giving up.

I will NEVER give up.

I will continue to survive.

I will continue to speak out.

I will continue to learn.

So will America.

I don't "believe" this: I KNOW this.

I will sleep well, even if the Supreme Court takes the kind of damage the entitled patriarchal oligarchs are detemined to inflict upon it.

I will sleep well, and I will rise, and I will stretch and eat well and exercise and look after the amazing gift of this life, because my voice is needed.

I will continue this struggle, and I will do it with JOY.

And in being a happy warrior I will deal them the ultimate defeat.

manifestly,
Bright