via For writers, our work is not our reward; the amount paid for our work is the just reward. But getting people to understand or acknowledge that is uphill work, and my precarious position as a freelance writer also means that people have felt free to exploit me. When I first began my life as [...]

there has been a lot of pain these past few weeks. a lot. a lot of silencing pain. that is, a pain that makes it hard to speak. hard to remember what to say–hard to remember why any of this matters. the number of times i’ve sat at this computer, looking at my “add new [...]