Status Updates From Activist

"their smiles lit with pride as the candles
twitch and shiver"

love this line

"If you've turned yourself up as loud as you can,
screamed your throat sore,
yelled yourself hoarse
and still no one has heard,
then what comes next?
Is silence the inevitable consequence?"

"No more dutiful prefects
being dutifully perfect."

"FEARLESS
Fear less.
Easier as an imperative
than an adjective."

"I get up, creep out,
wishing I could leave my thoughts behind
like a pile of clothes
thrown to the floor
by the bed."

"I wish my childhood didn't have to be a war."

"Since when was Sunday dinner
all about roasting me?"

"Knuckles keyed for battle,
I arm myself with household things"

"But I wish I could organize
something bigger
than my bedroom."

"Has our biology designated us
more adept
at cleaning up other people's messes?"

"Misogyny has its own algebraic conjecture.
Prizes available for the first to discover
what makes
M+F
an unequal, unsolvable equation."

"LAUGHTER
is
artillery,
a bitter and beautiful fire."

"still stuck in the past
where the future is always beautiful"

what a line 🔥

"Jack's so laid back he's horizontal"
savage 🔥

"What will be the point in knowing French verbs
if there is no world left to conjugate?
What will be the point in understanding atoms
if our planet has exploded?"

"I throw on my uniform and Mum off the scent"
obsessed with this line

"our woods smell of secrets and summer"
gorgeous

“it will be a great idea
to bring us all together and confront this pain,
spread it all out:
a buffet of despair”