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In the spirit of calling Republican bigots "Mrs Cruz" and "Mrs Graham" I wonder what it's like to dehumanise extreme MAGA people like the Whitehouse Press Secretary - I guess it's an aberrant mole-rat now since it seems only fair to do the same to it as it does to others.

The picture of it that AI generated for me isn't pleasant, so I marked it as sensitive.

Apologies behind window.

Eyeliner (Brussels), 2017
A gathering of objects which are normally on display behind private street windows in Brussels, as a silent signal of the inhabitants’ desire to connect between inside and outside. The artists’ encounters with the people behind the windows are documented in a booklet that links each object’s particular narrative to the story of their lives.

When I was in grade five, the teacher stepped out of the classroom for a bit and a boy started chasing me around trying to hurt me. I was running and screaming in terror. When the teacher came back in the room, he saw me running, but not my bully who'd sat down right away.

I was told to report for detention.

Later on, the teacher apologized to me because he'd found out what happened. It was the first time a grownup ever apologized to me.

I'd come to believe that no adult would ever believe me.

Normalize apologizing to children. Normalize admitting to them when you are wrong.
#apologies #children