About Em Haverty
Thistle & Moss: Wendy the Druid
Climate-Conscious Druid · Healer · LGBTQ+ Advocate
On Leaving
There is a kind of clarity that comes the morning after you have finally named the thing that has been poisoning the well. Not relief, exactly. More like the clean ache of a wound that has finally been opened to air.
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This is not a complicated story, though the people who profit from complexity would like it to be. The platform made its choices — choices about whose harm was worth tolerating, whose safety was negotiable, whose voices were simply the cost of doing business in the attention economy.