HeyJaredFinding Our Way Home
A survivor's testimony in service of individual freedom and collective liberation
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New Poem Drop: Notices (opens the original)
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A poem came flying out of my head and onto the paper this morning. This month is Suicide Prevention Month. I did not plan to write anything for this month, but the poem came out of me, so call it divine timing.As a trauma and abuse survivor, suicidality has been a part of my life for a long time. I feel it in varying levels, from complete unnoticeable to “damn, I could finally be at peace from this monstrous pain if I just ended it all.”For many of us, suicidality comes from not being seen or he
Justice for All (opens the original)
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Content warning: talk of physical, emotional and sexual child abuse“Mr. Police, please try to see that there’s a million motherfuckers stressin’ just like me!”Tupac Shakur - Only God Can Judge MeThe worst part of all of the torture that I experienced at my mother’s hands is not the abuse itself. It is horrifying to think that a mother could subject her own defenseless child to rape, humiliation, physical domination, and verbal abuse. But that is not the worst part of it.The worst part of it is t
Poem Drop: Dangerous (opens the original)
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There is nothing more dangerousThan a person who has survived oppressionAfter being told all his lifeThat he should be grateful for what he has been given,Even if it isn’t what he always needed,There is nothing more dangerousThan a person who hung on long enoughTo free himself from his oppression,And now has the time, safety, and internal and external resourcesTo go after the bastards who did this to him.
Thoughts on Recovery and Coming Back Home (opens the original)
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Content warning: talk about physical, emotional and sexual child abuseI have never attended an AA meeting or participated in a 12 step program. I get the feeling that I could’ve benefited from it, but I never saw myself in the media and language used to show recovery.In 2006, I had given up on DJing, and on life entirely. I quit a miserable job without a plan, my girlfriend at the time dumped me, my college friends had all moved away, and my parents had retired to Hawaii while I stayed in Philly
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