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the recovery process is hard

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Updated: Nov 29, 2022



tw: domestic violence





[october 23rd, 201_]


the recovery process is hard moving house to a new place, opening boxes that remind you of the brief periods in your _____ that were incredibly happy, only to remind yourself that you need to leave them in the box, and put them on the side of the road because it does you no good to hold onto the past when you're looking towards the future can become increasingly difficult, especially when the rain itself reminds you of traumatic events not only from _____ but from _____ there are so many good days when it's impossible to count all of the blessings I'm grateful for, and then there are others like today, when I can finally afford to buy myself a bed and remember what led me to needing a new one, causing me to go back home and lay on the ground while I flip the Carrie & Lowell record over and over and over for hours reminding myself that nothing that happened is my fault life is the most fascinating art form of them all and I'm trying my best to understand the mediums used on my canvas, but I don't think l'Il ever understand why abuse and rape are colours that stain the majority of the picture the best I can do for myself is try to heal I'll keep turning this record over until I fall asleep, and hope I won't need to turn it back over again tomorrow




[july 5th, 2022]


lili's abue sleeps on that bed now; she says it helps her back pain...which helps mine

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yannick-robin, is a Manhattan, NYC-based Biawaisa/Yamoká-hu/Maorocoti multidisciplinary artist and activist with a rare disease.
He began working with nonprofits in 2020, most notably working for Imara Jones (one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2023), owner of TransLash Media, where trans stories are centered in order to save trans lives. While under her wing, yannick-robin was nominated for a Webby Award as an associate and digital producer for the TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones, worked on The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Humanity series as a producer and fact checker, and wrote obituaries for their TGNC siblings lost to violence in the United States and its Territories (more on this here). They have since then written for TalkDeath (read Racial Disparities and Discrimination in the Death Care Industry), focusing on Queer and BIPOC end-of-life preparations and equality, as well as making strides as a disability activist within the performance space, being Off-Broadway in the first TGNC Theatre Festival in the professions history, + being the first wheelchair user to perform in several iconic regional theatres of the US while advocating for accessibility for trans and disabled performers and continuing on with activism as a freelance writer and advocate/consultant. They were recently added to the University of Minnesota’s Tretter Transgender Oral History Project for his contributions to the progress for trans rights in death care and theatre. Now offering obituaries, death doulaship, and bereavement counseling for TGNC decedents and their families as well as trans people lost to violence, people with rare diseases, and the disabled. 

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