{"id":8413,"date":"2018-09-10T16:05:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j-applebee.tumblr.com\/post\/177943606063"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:05:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T16:05:38","slug":"on-world-suicide-prevention-daythese-targets-on-my-back-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2018\/09\/on-world-suicide-prevention-daythese-targets-on-my-back-are\/","title":{"rendered":"On World Suicide Prevention DayThese targets on my back are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/a6f7fd82c79807d9bc27227ad79b6cc0\/tumblr_peukpeEuMA1qd3j1wo1_500.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><b>On World Suicide Prevention Day<\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>These targets on my back are weighing me down:<br \/>Biphobia\/Fatphobia\/Racism\/Ableism<br \/>\u201cWait your turn!\u201d Says the well-meaning activist<br \/>\u201cWhy are you so angry?\u201d Says the self-proclaimed ally.<br \/>\u201cMy back hurts,\u201d I respond. \u00a0\u201cI need help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My body is covered in bruises<br \/>From people touching me with barge poles:<br \/>\u201cI\u2019ve always liked fat girls\/black girls\/bisexual girls,\u201d says the fetish guy.<br \/>\u201cI don\u2019t like holding hands\/acknowledging you\/kissing you in public,\u201d he says later.<br \/>\u201cI\u2019m lonely,\u201d I respond. \u00a0\u201cI need help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I find a home at the bottom of a barrel:<br \/>\u201cIf you only lost some weight\/wore a wig\/lightened your skin,\u201d says the media<br \/>\u201cDon\u2019t make this about race,\u201d says the bigot<br \/>\u201cBisexuality is a cop out!\u201d Screams the lesbians and gays at Pride.<br \/>\u201cMy world is full of hatred,\u201d I respond. \u00a0\u201cI need help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>World Suicide Prevention Day comes around:<br \/>\u201cReach out and talk to someone,\u201d says the Prime Minister<br \/>\u201cCall this helpline that doesn\u2019t know how to talk to blacks\/bisexuals\/old people\u201d<br \/>Says the clueless straight white folks<br \/>\u201cThis life is too painful,\u201d I respond. \u00a0\u201cI just want it to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On World Suicide Prevention DayThese targets on my back are weighing me down:Biphobia\/Fatphobia\/Racism\/Ableism\u201cWait your turn!\u201d Says the well-meaning activist\u201cWhy are you so angry?\u201d Says the self-proclaimed ally.\u201cMy back hurts,\u201d I respond. \u00a0\u201cI need hel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,4,133,302,279,519,775],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigotry","category-biphobia","category-bisexuality","category-fatphobia","category-racism","category-suicide","category-wspd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8414,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}