And despite my tone, I am being serious!

TW: public assault, blood, discussion of drug use and overdose

I tried my best to be as candid as possible about some stuff I'm still processing, as they say...but I hope this can all be an ongoing conversation, and I hope we can figure some stuff out together? Ultimately I hope we can love each other enough to challenge the way we've been taught to relate...And to recognize who and what benefits from an unending cycle of violence. Safety is a relationship between people, and it cannot be realized by a system built on the oppression of those people.

<3

Links:

The Secret, Silent Echo Of An Overdose by Alan Hanson:

https://takesurfacestreets.substack.com/p/the-secret-silent-echo-of-an-overdose

Alan's substack: https://takesurfacestreets.substack.com/

More writing: https://muckrack.com/alan-hanson/articles