Compulsory survivorship depoliticizes our understanding of violence and its effects. It places the burden of healing on the individual, while comfortably erasing the systems and structures that make surviving hard, harder for some than for others. You are your own salvation. You are your own barrier to progress.
“Hurry up and heal”: Pain, productivity, and the inadequacy of ‘victim vs. survivor’

Source: feministing.com

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