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the truth is

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my rage
is eating me alive but i do
not know
how
to engage
with my anger
without being consumed
by it.

loss of control is by far my biggest
fear.

Written by cripchick

December 29th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Posted in in place of a diary

4 Responses to 'the truth is'

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truth!!! this is right on time!

thank you!

moya

29 Dec 09 at 6:10 PM
<3

Savannah Nicole Logsdon

30 Dec 09 at 12:10 AM
Heya – I read you, but don’t think I’ve said anything before. My name’s Peter ;-)
This poem reminds me of some lines I liked from Brecht’s ‘To Posterity’:

Even the hatred of squalor
Makes the brow grow stern.
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow harsh. alas, we
Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
Could not ourselves be kind.

It sounds like you understood the process a stage or two before he realised it had already happened :-)

driftwood

10 Jan 10 at 1:50 PM
hi peter! thank you for sharing. glad to find your blog!!

cripchick

10 Jan 10 at 2:03 PM

Cripchick

About

Cripchick is a powerchair-roaring disabled queer woman of color activist and writer. She grew up in North Carolina and lived on the world's largest US Army military installation for 18 years. After becoming politicized around disability, she went from being the to secretary of her county's Teenage Republican club and attending the Bush inauguration in DC to lefty organizing around the interlocking nature of ableism, racism, heterosexism and capitalism. After pouring the last five years of her life into organizing with the Disabled Young People's Collective, she is currently taking a break from traditional organizing to write, make media and deepen relationships. She works for a national organization run by and for youth activists with disabilities and does consulting work on the side.

To The Other Side of Dreaming

Cripchick has been doing most of her blogging as of late on To The Other Side of Dreaming, an epistolary journal between her and Mia Mingus, another queer physically disabled Korean American woman of color. Their blog chronicles both Mia and cripchick's move from the South to the San Francisco Bay Area and what it has meant to build home with each other. To find out more, please visit To the Other Side Of Dreaming.