Links: Survival skills

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Sinking Feelings by Rebecca Boyle on Last Word On Nothing.

I am not saying we should not struggle at all. We want to fight to survive, and it’s hard to turn off that instinct. I am saying we should think about other ways to struggle, which might be counterintuitive but more effective. Getting safe might look a little different than we expect. The bog will not stop trying to destroy us, so we have to be creative. We have to be lithe and loose, quick-footed, maybe a little sneaky, maybe hew a bit closer to the darkness than we’re used to. There are ways out of every quagmire.

Via redbird, obituaries and articles about her mother, may her memory be a blessing. Eve Kugler BEM from Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, and How Eve Kugler Changed the World by Karen Pollock, and Shattered Crystals by Eve Kugler about her experiences as a child survivor of the Holocaust.

The Best Part of Researching Trans History Is When I’m Wrong by Milo Todd.

In The Lilac People, my debut novel about trans people in Weimar Berlin and Nazi Germany, I have a side character so small, they’re downright tertiary. Dora Richter has no speaking role, nor does she have any impact on the plot. And yet she’s included because she’s important, and she was real.
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But perhaps most importantly, we now know that such stories sometimes come with a happy ending. The reality is there. All we have to do is look.