I Was Brought Up With

So It Was Sort Of An Odd Time Because I Had Been Hired, But My Paperwork Hadn't Gone Through. So I Worked As An Intern During The Government Shutdown, As An Intern, But I Already Had A Job.

I Was Worried About My Mom More Than I Was Worried About The President. And Then I Was Worried About The President, And Then I Was Worried About Myself.

I Lost My Public Self, Or Had It Stolen. In A Way, It Was A Form Of Identity Theft.

As Painful And Destructive As They Are, The Hateful Comments Allow Us To Map The Underlying Beliefs Of Many People In A Way We've Never Been Able To Before. It's Almost As If All Of The Negativity And Misogyny Needs To Come To The Surface So We Can Fully Understand What It Is, And How Deep It Goes, Before We Can Begin To Shift It. Of Course, I Wish It Weren't There.

I Was Brought Up With Lies All The Time... That's How You Got Along... I Have Lied My Entire Life...