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Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!  Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3

PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!

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“Tarana Burke, an activist from Harlem, launched the movement a decade ago to aid underprivileged women of color affected by sexual abuse. She was inspired after bonding with a young girl during a youth camp hosted by Just Be Inc., a nonprofit she founded that’s “focused on the health, well-being, and wholeness of young women of color,” the site reads. Burke detailed the encounter on the site. She said the girl revealed her mother’s boyfriend had been abusing her. That’s when Burke decided to take action by helping the communities where rape crisis centers and sexual assault workers were not present, and “Me Too” was born.”

— https://www.ajc.com/news/world/who-tarana-burke-meet-the-woman-who-started-the-too-movement-decade-ago/i8NEiuFHKaIvBh9ucukidK/

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None of us is free until all of us are free

In the criminal justice community, due process is always front and center in investigations. Neutrality and objectivity during an investigation is integral to the ideal of due process. Does a show of compassion and concern over the disclosure of sexual violence take away the objectivity necessary in the investigation?  “There is no neutrality. There is only greater or lesser awareness of one’s bias.”

The #MeToo movement and other campaigns have brought to light how the issue of gender bias is a factor in this conversation. Even professionals have biases that may impact their approach, interest, and willingness to conduct an in-depth investigation into a report of sexual violence. 

 Law enforcement training on interviewing may also include interrogation, with the emphasis on getting a confession from a suspect. Therefore, the tone of a victim interview may display characteristics of an interrogation, causing the victim to shut down and not disclose important pieces of information about what occurred. This reticence then serves to create suspicion in the mind of the officer or detective conducting the interview that the report may be false. Victims who sense this suspicion might back out altogether and no longer participate in the investigation. This, in turn, completes the circle by seeming to confirm the investigator’s belief that the victim was lying to begin with, explaining why he or she stopped cooperating.

It is important, therefore, to explore how gender bias may impact an investigation and prosecution of sexual violence. Police officers, detectives, deputies, and prosecutors alike all are affected by their own worldviews, their own implicit and explicit biases. Everyone makes snap judgments that are based on their life experiences, what they hear and see in the media, their professional training, and what they believe and don’t believe about the world. As the gatekeepers into a system that controls the administration of justice, police officer or investigators’ errors in judgment have significant impacts on the individuals involved. Lives are changed forever by decisions and actions of first responders in these cases. It is in this role of gatekeeper where barriers might unintentionally be created for survivors of sexual violence.

Encouraging criminal justice professionals to understand and perceive their own biases—and then working to remove obstacles in the path of victims and survivors of sexual violence—is not a departure from the objectivity or neutrality that due process demands. It makes it safer for survivors to step forward and tell their stories so more complete investigations, ones that uncover all the facts, all the details, can be the outcome. Criminal justice decisions must be made from complete, thorough, and comprehensive investigations, not based on the implicit biases that all individuals have. Due process is afforded throughout, and sexual predators can be held accountable through an evidence-based process while the system also assists victims in their recovery needs. 

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written by veniennes (on tiktok)

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Fictitious Perfection

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Thisfeelsnice  

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I may have daddy issues

but my heart is

black and blue

and truthfully

I don't know what to do.

So hold me, God.

Even if it is 6ft down

in the deep ground.

Clutch me

please, it's all I need.

Comfort me

do it with urgency.

Only you can, God

for he didn't answer me.

No one did when I cried

When I cried for my daddy.

Sincerely Irina

Daddy Issues

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I felt fear today.

the fear of the little girl inside my mind

it's the side of her I've pushed away.

the girl that curls up and wishes to decay

in her moments of vulnerability.

tears created clouded eyes and instability

dependence on others

this causes a loss of sensibility.

can't you take a moment to understand

if she takes another hit of abandonment

she is damned.

Sincerely Irina

She is damned.

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Somewhere in the multiverse, you didn't end things the way you did and we’re still okay.

#aesthetic #me #pink aesthetic #wallpaper #green aesthetic #wallpaper aesthetic #cory kenshin #fiction #oddcore #painting

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Every day I wake up and I'm still not a vampire living in an old gothic castle.

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“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart;

I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.”

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein; 1818

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“I saw a solemn, but very pretty face looking at me from the side of the bed. It was that of a young lady who was kneeling, with her hands under the coverlet....”

“She caressed me with her hands, and lay down beside me on the bed, and drew me towards her...”

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872