Sunday, November 22, 2015

What I look like

November 22, 2015











The shelter is crowded in the winter.  There is nowhere for me to take pictures that nobody could interpret as having code value.

I took these pictures this morning, when it was quiet for a few minutes, and nobody was in the bathroom to see me taking these pictures of myself next to one of the sinks.

There's nobody else in the pictures.  I am not interested in invading people's privacy, and I HAVE NEVER CONSENTED TO BEING THE VICTIM OF VOYEURISM, INVOLUNTARY PORNOGRAPHY, SLUT-SHAMING, OR OTHER FORMS OF BULLYING!

That bullies don't stop bullying doesn't mean that somehow they got their victim's consent to being bullied; it means that they don't want to stop, their victim can't make them stop, and the people who could stop them haven't.


Copyright L. Kochman, November 22, 2015 @ 8:31 a.m.