knowledge is power, etc

i'm completely in love with the lilith plan and Mai'a's amazing fact-finding missions. i am speechless with impressedness.

and also i had a good root around in Scarleteen recently, so good! it's aimed at teenagers but is full of sound info for anyone of any age, and i got a (turns out) well-needed update of the extremely patchy info i got from Just Seventeen magazine back in the day. they sure hadn't told me what i need to know now. it still almost makes me cry to see accessible sex ed for young people where queer is normal.

speaking the overwhelm

Joan Kelly on serial rapist-murderers, hatred and 'protecting' girls. not a cheery read but i get so much from the way joan writes from the gut, linking it all together. she writes the kinds of thoughts and feelings that i can't articulate because i can't bear to dwell on them, and i'm grateful to her for that.