Christa (she/her)

@wordrascal.bsky.social

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Graduate student: #traumainformed #emergencymanagement @umainegradschool. https://disaster-minded.ghost.io/ Survivor of corporate life, self employment, & CPTSD, not necessarily in that order; n00b #civilservant. Introverted ADHD'er. I stan #raccoons.

A crowd of hundreds of protesters in a green park on a sunny day, lining a stone bridge and thronging on grassy spaces.
Text from the first line of the novella collection "Sodom & Gomorrah on a Saturday Night" reads: "When the government outlawed empathy, no one protested it much."
Paperback cover of the book "Living With Music" by author Ralph Ellison, depicting the business end of a trumpet
Excerpt from this article: "...because if a state can, as Prelogar put it, force people to “look and live like boys and girls,” subject to the government’s definition of what that means, then a lot more people might be affected. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor pointed out during oral argument, for many years, some states prevented women from becoming butchers or lawyers. Women could not have their own credit cards or bank accounts until the 1970s. If it’s not unconstitutional sex discrimination for the government to say that people cannot behave “inconsistent with their sex,” well now you’re really talking about a lot of people—a lot more people than the rather tiny population included in the category of “they/them” that the Trump campaign was hoping you feel disgust and contempt for."
A stuffed raccoon peeks out from inside a blue and gray cooler bag. Packets of flower seeds are also in frame.
The green and white Starbucks mermaid logo framed by metal door and window panes from across the street.
A snapshot of a paragraph from Alan Watts' book "The Wisdom of Insecurity," about humans' fascination with words as a framework for security that ends up isolating us further
A ginger dog sleeps with her chin resting on a dark teal blanket covering my legs