Lio Tipton

Lio Tipton Instagram – To all the little girls out there who won’t come forward for years, to all the teenage girls just trying to be a normal teenager, to all the women just trying to be—when I look at myself in this photo and I hear “why didn’t she come forward sooner?” I ask those who pose such a question to look a little girl in the face, and fathom how she, or a teenager, or a woman of any age—should or could, process such trauma. Trauma has no time limit. Ever. In the words of Rebecca Solnit (full quote in bio): Thirty years ago Ronald Reagan was president here, the threat of an apocalyptic nuclear war seemed very real, a large swathe of the earth lived under the totalitarianism that got called communism, which seemed like it might last centuries rather than another year in Eastern Europe (and three more for the USSR), Anita Hill had yet to speak up and almost no one addressed sexual harrassment in the workplace, colleges did nothing about rape, date and acquaintance rape were barely recognized let alone redressed, same-sex marriage was virtually inconceivable to most people, the Lawrence vs. Texas ruling decriminalizing gay sex nationwide was fifteen years away, native people had been almost entirely erased in public discourse and white popular imagination and representation, and we got a lot of our energy from coal. The world gets better and worse at the same time…. We have gone into bleak periods and emerged from them, the former often through neglect and obliviousness, the latter often through extraordinary effort by a few, the human sparks, who eventually ignite a human bonfire. (It takes a lot of work to create Stalinism or McCarthyism or MAGA too; there are other kinds of catalysts and agendas.)
This is a bleak period, and I feel as bruised and weary and aching at where we are and where we’re headed in the near term as you probably do. And cognizant that it’s still possible, though unlikely, that something will stop the yes vote tomorrow. It’s also possible he’ll be disbarred or otherwise disrupted. He will never escape what he himself proved he was: an entitled, dishonest, partisan so used to getting his way that his lies were sloppy.. | Posted on 07/Oct/2018 09:12:16