This post has content warnings for: abuse.
Award winning writer and critic, accountant, and also skunk furry. I write BRAND ECHO with Ing and I write other things at other places. Mostly SFW, but minor DNI anyways
And to pre-empt the thing the internet does when a personal essay doesn't cover the breadth and depth of the human experience: you don't have to forgive abuse. And neither do I.
But I did it anyways, and I'm not weak or an enabler for it.