How Not to Be A Garbage Person 101

Really Cross Stitch: For When You Just Want to Stab Something a Lot, by Rayna Fahey. MOOD.

Acknowledge your privileges.

Don’t smugly wallow in your privileges.

Listen to and respect people who don’t have all your privileges. Believe them. Don’t talk down to them. Don’t try to gaslight them.

Don’t punch down.

Don’t weaponize your privileges against those who don’t have them.

(This all applies to not only in real life but even, gasp, online, obviously.)

Where I was published in 2022:

My poem “Bonsai Tree” in the webzine Grim & Gilded, September 2022 issue.

Special Issue One - Grim & Gilded - A Literary Journal

• My story “Theater Patron” in Kaleidoscope — A Queer Anthology, published by Cloaked Press. Proceeds for the latter go to The Trevor Project.

Kaleidoscope A Queer Anthology: 2022 Edition

• My story “Starless Night” in Sirens Call Magazine…