Tag: Cry

I cried on day one. I cried in the days leading up to it. I cried when it was unfolding and I cried on the evening it happened. But the next day, no tears came. No tears came on day two, and neither did they today, on day three. I have been known the last few months for being emotionally uncontro...

Delia knew that nobody was coming to save her. She punched a pillow and kicked a door. She screamed loud, with tears streaming down her face. “Why?” She asked herself over and over again. Nobody heard her pain. Pain she had locked inside her for months since her girlfriend had l...

Richard Dawkins, a biologist famous for his book The Selfish Gene (1976) and for his later collaboration with the New Atheists, made a transphobic tweet in April 2021. Consequently, the American Humanist Association revoked an award it had given him 25 years earlier. One might imagine...

The reason this particular incident hit home for me is that I had, a couple years earlier, made a large effort to network in-person with an international group of humanists and atheists. I had assumed that a secular group would be trans-inclusive or at least not outright transphobic. It hadn’t...

I’m not sure which is worse — the crushing weight of the truth or the clenched fists of hate. I have stopped looking for solace. I have to claim the shadows and the light as my own. The hate, that ugly monster, became fuel for change, not defeat. The truth is a bitter pill, but swallo...

Most media headlines about the recent formal abdication of the former Danish queen, Margrethe II, contained the word ‘tears.’ And while you might think that it was probably the former queen who must’ve shed a tear for leaving a role held by 52 years — making her the longes...