The irony here is I spent an hour in therapy yesterday literally sobbing about how frustrating it is that I am so poor and have to fight constantly for my health insurance to pay for things like oxygen and rxs and I was saying how not one candidate was addressing poverty.
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No one wants to hear from actual poor people about poverty. True story: mid-90s I wrote a short story for an anthology based largely on my own experience of homelessness & my upper middle class editor at my then-publisher rejected it for her anthology as "not believable."
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My editor actually said that educated people don't end up on the street, so it strained credulity for the reader. Which readers, I queried.
My therapist works with homeless people and I told her this story and she sighed heavily.
These are issues missing from the primary.
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My therapist works with homeless people and I told her this story and she sighed heavily.
These are issues missing from the primary.
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Poverty is crushing, living in poverty is crushing and it never gets less so and a society that handwaves poor people while giving cover to obscenely wealthy men skipping out on paying taxes is not a just society, full stop.
#FridayThoughts
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#FridayThoughts
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And whenever I talk about being poor on here folks either have the same response as my editor or they just look away like I did something unseemly in public. A few poor people will respond with their own stories, but really, no one RTs stuff about being poor. It's not "hot."
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