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The Elected In Action

When HIV/AIDS ravaged the nation, 1) Reagan laughed. Never forget that. 2) Laws were created state by state where people who were thought to be spreading the virus were locked up. Of course, this was just a way to persecute LGBTQ people, and many of those laws have since been dismantled, except many of them haven't. Several states still have on the books laws where acts (many of which have low to no risk of spreading HIV/AIDS) are punishable by imprisonment. I don't know what's worse, that when it came to this issue, an issue where the marginalized could be even more marginalized, the government was at attention, all hands on deck. Or now, when people are waving it in your face that they don't HAVE to stop doing things that keep a pandemic going because fuck you gubment, the gubment just goes, well fellas, they got us on this one. Even worse, if they decided enough was enough and said no, these people are keeping a life-threatening pandemic going, lock them up, it would STILL turn into a way to lock up the marginalized and these hoot n hollers would be running free and unmasked. Because that's how this country works. Unless there's a way they can turn it on the people that make the squares crinkle their noses, why bother trying anything?  

#thisisamerica

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Eventually I’ll get finished

Does anyone else keep falling down research rabbit holes when writing because you keep second guessing yourself? Like you’ll be moving at a perfectly fine clip and then you’ll start to wonder about imaginary social media users just setting your book on fire because you wrote about sections of cities that people don’t actually live in or Walmarts where there are actually Targets or Chili’s that have never been and you just start googling maps and college schedules and building schematics all to keep the negative tweets at bay? I guess I understand why so many people set their stories in imaginary towns. 

Also, I’m a neurotic with heavy anxiety so this could just be me...

#doyourresearch #anxietyproblems