About two months ago, we switched from using our screenless drawing tablet and the program Krita to a beautiful IPad and the program ProCreate to do our artwork. One of the cool features that ProCreate offers is to record a time-lapse video… (Read more on Patreon)
Tag: abuse
Patreon Bonus Content: A Poetry Book in Four Parts
Since pretty early on in its development, our poetry book has been separated into four parts. I wanted to share with you what…. (Read the rest on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: Insights on New Sections of My Poetry Book Part 2
One element of our poetry book we’ve continued to work on is titling the poems. It’s easy to come up with a title for a poem in its
Patreon Bonus Content: Insights on New Sections in My Poetry Book
My upcoming poetry book, “Pet”, on abuse and trauma, has gone through many drafts and iterations over the years. During the most recent round of revisions, knowing that we planned on publishing the book independently, we made some additions that…
Patreon Bonus Content: Choosing the Color Palettes for My Poetry Book Cover
In the past, we always figured we’d hire someone to do the artwork for the cover of our book but when we decided to self-publish, we realized that we actually have enough skill to do a decent job ourselves!
The book is called “Pet: poetry on abuse and recovery” and it didn’t take very long to decide on the appropriate image…
Patreon Bonus Content: The Story Behind My Poetry Book on Abuse & Recovery
Between 2009 and 2013, I wrote dozens of poems that would later become part of a book on abuse and trauma recovery…
Article on Medium: Why Does Everything Feel So Hard Right Now If I’m Fine
When social-distancing first started, I figured, besides my anxiety about the virus itself, my life wouldn’t change a huge amount and the transition would probably be easy for me. My work is already remote, my financial situation is stable, and my partner and I are pretty used to co-existing in our apartment for long periods of time. Almost immediately, I found that if I didn’t work hard to use my systems and tools meant to …Read More
What Do You Want out of a Relationship? An Alternate Method to Reaching Abuse Victims
CN: extensive discussion of the experience of being in an abusive relationship, discussion of physical abuse and the painful process of recovery after abuse, mention of sexual abuse. Being able to recognize that you are being abused, while the abuse is still happening, is mind-bogglingly difficult. I say mind-boggling because even though dozens of people trying to tell me that my relationship was abusive was completely ineffective for me, it’s still my first instinct when …Read More
Recovering from Abuse: Was Everything My Fault?
CN: extensive discussion of the dynamics, healing process, and emotional experience of abuse. General discussion of PTSD and trauma responses. This post may encourage trauma processing. Read it at your own pace! I have a large number of friends who have been through at least one kind of abuse and I’ve noticed that if someone has gone through the process of recognizing that something that happened to them was abusive at least once, it becomes …Read More
It Can’t Be That Bad: How the Medical System Let Me Fall Through the Cracks
CN: Explicit descriptions and in depth discussion of chronic pain, abuse, medical neglect, gaslighting, and oppression through poverty. Discussion of sexual assault, trauma, mental and illness. Mention of genitals. There is a disconnect between the experience of a patient and the experience of a medical professional, one that worsens if the patient’s illness is chronic or not easily explained. As more and more stories of medical neglect as a result of marginalization are brought to …Read More