I’m a funny artist musician who has been absolutely pummeled into submission by mistreatment and capitalism

I’m a trans audhd woman who was denied self-knowledge by conservative policy and culture

Every time I make a new friend, eventually they tell me how incredible it is that I haven’t given up

I have given up. Thousands of times. I’m a shadow of the self I know I could have been. But for some reason I also keep deciding to get up and do a little bit more.

I don’t always want to! But I do