Author Honey Badger

Timelines. Processes. Authorities that claimed to know what healing should look like. I no longer trust those things.

Grief is tolerated if it is brief. Anger is allowed if it is contained. Silence is acceptable only if it eventually turns into insight.

We are expected to recover in ways that reassure others. To soften our language. To make meaning quickly. To show improvement on a timeline that makes institutions comfortable

Writing under a pen name allows the work to exist without performance. Without pleading. Without the constant threat of being asked to give more.