i never meant to write long-form on here, but i’ve got to get something out of my head. i find myself struggling to post things, hesitant to write, because there’s a voice in my head that says “you’re a man, there are already too many dudes that write about how sad they are, nobody needs to hear that shit again”

but then, they’re mostly white dudes and i’m so. fucking. tired. of hearing about how great some white guy is because he’s seen the light after becoming famous for being edgy and using drugs. so he went to rehab and bastardised several eastern religions to become “enlightened” that doesn’t mean we give him a platform and praise him for talking about it. (is he actually enlightened if he’s still constantly selling himself out for attention?)

writing for me began as a way to process things that i couldn’t or didn’t know how to talk about. and i think that it always will be that on some level, but another part of it is that i really like telling stories. and i think it’s important for people like me (insert whichever label you’d like) to tell our stories, the more stories we have, the more perspective we have, and hopefully we’ll grow from that and realise that we don’t want any more mediocre white dudes.